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1713.  1913. 

The  Handbook 

....  OF  .... 
A  Condensed  History  of 

The  Town  of  Medway,  Massachusetts, 

By  ORION  T.  MASON. 


Our  old  town  lies  beneath  the  hill, 
Its  shady  streets  are  wide  and  still, 
Its  river  murmers  past  the  mill 
As  years  increase* 
The  church  and  school  retain  their  place, 
While  on  the  whole  a  quiet  grace 
Rests  like  God's  blessing;  On  the  race, 
In  sweetest  peace. 

— Rev.  J.  O.  Knowles. 


G.  M.  Billings,  Printer. 
1913- 


LOAN  STACK 


IA  srs-M. 


ANCIENT   ARMS   AND   ACCOUTREMENTS. 


PREFACE. 

This  little  pamphlet  in  a  humble  way  aims  to  fill  a  his- 
torical want.  Our  town  is  this  year  two  centuries  old  and  its 
history  is  worthy  of  record  and  preservation. 

The  compiler  believes  that  the  facts  contained  herein  will 
be  of  value  and  interest  to  anyone  who  has  any  association 
whatever  with  Medway  or  Millis. 

Every  fact  recorded  is  believed  to  be  true. 

I  wish  here  to  thank  all  friends  who  have  in  any  way  as- 
sisted. 

ORION  T.  MASON, 
Medway,  April  1,  1913. 


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FIRST   SETTLEMENTS 
IN   MASSACHUSETTS  COLONY. 


Salem  first  mentioned,  Aug.  23,  1630. 
Charlestown  first  mentioned,  Aug.  23,  1630. 
Boston  first  named,  Sept.  7,  1630. 
Dorchester  first  named,  Sept.  7,  1630. 
Watertown  first  named,  Sept.  7,  1630. 
Roxbury  first  mentioned,  Sept.  28,  1630. 
Medford  first  mentioned,  Sept.  28,  1630. 
Marblehead  first  mentioned,  July  2,  1633. 
Ipswich  first  named,  Aug.  5,  1634. 
Newbury  first  named,  May  6,  1635. 
Hingham  first  named,  Sept.  2, 1635. 
Weymouth  first  named,  Sept.  2,  1635. 
Concord  first  named,  Sept.  3,  1635. 
Dedham  first  named,  Sept.  8,  1636. 


EARLIEST    SETTLERS 
AT  BOGGESTOWE  FARMS. 


1653,  Nicholas  Wood  of  Dorchester. 
1653,  Thomas  Holbrook  of  Dorchester. 
1653,  Henry  Leland  of  Dorchester. 
1653,  Hopestill  Leland  of  Dorchester. 

1657,  Daniel  Morse  of  Medfleld. 

1658,  John  Hill  of  Dorchester. 
1658,  Thomas  Breck  of  Dorchester. 
1658,  Benjamin  Bullard  of  Dedham. 
1658,  George  Fayerbanke  of  Dedham. 
1660,  Thomas  Bass. 

All  of  these,  except  Fayerbanke,  settled  on  land  now 
Sherborn.  The  sites  of  the  dwellings  built  by  them  can  in 
some  instances  be  discerned  at  the  present  time.  They  all 
sleep  in  the  old  burying  ground  at  South  Sherborn,  near 
Death's  bridge,  in  unmarked  graves,  and  their  descendants 
are  scatteied  all  over  our  countrv. 


SUMMARY  OF  IMPORTANT  EVENTS  OF 
MEDWAY,  MASSACHUSETTS. 


1614.  Charles  River  discovered  by  Capt.  John  Smith;  first 
called  the  Massachusetts  River. 

1628.  March  19.  Plymouth  Council  sealed  a  patent  of  that 
part  of  New  England  between  three  miles  south  of 
Charles  River  and  three  miles  north  of  the  Merrimac 
from  the  Atlantic  to  the  South  Sea. 

1629.  Royal  charter  giving  power  of  government  passed  the 
seals. 

1636.  Dedham,  Incorporated  September  7th.  Its  territory 
including  all  the  lands  along  the  easterly  and  souther- 
ly banks  of  the  Charles  River. 

1638.  Extract  from  Dedham  Records:  "The  21st  of  ye 
seventh  month,  Jno.  Rogers,  and  Jno.  Fayerbanke  ap- 
poynted  to  goe  upon  ye  discovery  of  Charles  River 
with  such  men  as  shall  be  by  ye  courts  appoynted  call 
them  upon  ye  second  day  of  ye  next  week." 

1649.  Dedham  granted  lands  west  of  Charles  River  three 
miles  from  east  to  west  and  four  miles  from  north  to 
south.  This  was  the  old  grant,  so  called,  in  Medway, 
Its  western  line  is  just  west  of  Christ  Church  in  Med- 
way. 

1651.  Jan.  11.  Medfield  incorporated  a  town  with  jurisdic- 
tion on  west  bank  of  the  river. 

1652.  First  highway  laid  out  on  west  bank  across  broad 
meadows. 

1653.  Abraham  Harding  and  Peter  Adams  have  grants  of 
land  in  Grape  Meadows. 

"Great  Bridge"  across  the  river  first  mentioned  in 
Medfield  Records. 
1655.     July  22.     First  white  child  born  on  the  west  bank  of 
the  river.     Mehitable,  daughter  of  Nicholas  Wood. 


1658.  Sergeant  George  Fayerbanke,  son  of  Jonathan,  of  Ded- 
ham,  became  the  first  settler  (on  land  afterward  in  the 
limits  of  Med  way)  at  "The  Farms." 

Medfield  voces  to  lay  out  uplands  on  the  west  side 
of  river. 

The  Palisade  built  on  George  Fayerbanke'  land  on 
north  side  of  Boggestowe  Pond  by  settlers  at  "The 
Farms,"  as  a  refuge  from  Indians. 


SITE   OF  PALISADE. 


1659.  General  Court  grants  to  Medfield  land  in  addition  to 
their  former  bounds  on  the  west  side  of  the  river,  two 
miles  east  and  west  and  four  miles  north  and  south. 
(This  embraced  what  is  now  West  Med  way,  Metcalf 
Station,  the  south  part  of  Holliston,  and  the  most  of 
Medway)  and  was  called  the  New  Grant. 

John  Fussell  granted  eight  acres  of  upland,  (now 
Union  street,  Millis). 

May  11.  On  same  day,  new  grant  made  to  Med- 
field, and  three  Quakers,  Stephenson,  Dyer,  and  Hen- 
derson, executed  in  Boston. 

1660.  At  Medfield  annual  town  meeting,  Feb.  6th,  ordered 
that  New  Grant  be  divided  among  all  the  inhabitants  in 
Medfield  that  were  proprietors. 


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1660.  One  of  the  twelve  copies  of  the  Law  Books  allotted 
to  Medfield,  placed  with  George  Fayerbanke  for  the  use 
of  the  inhabitants  on  that  side  of  the  river. 

April  20th.  Ordered  that  highways  be  laid  out  in 
New  Grant.  (Vine  Lane,  Evergreen,  Mechanics  and 
Oak  streets  constituted  one  of  these  highways.) 

1661.  Ralph  Wheelock,  founder  of  Medfield,  was  the  first 
man  to  draw  by  lot,  land  in  the  New  Grant,  156  acres. 
(Taking  in  part  of  the  Village.) 

Dwight's  Causeway  made  a  town  road.  (Now 
Dwight  street  in  Millis.) 

Medfield  grants  Robert  Hinsdell  46  acres  of  land 
on  Boggestowe  brook  in  exchange  for  a  bell. 

1662.  Joseph  Daniel  second  white  settler.  (On  farm  now 
owned  by  Louis  LaCroix  of  Millis.) 

1665.  First  wedding  on  the  west  bank.  (Joseph  Daniel  and 
Mary  Fayerbanke,  daughter  of  Sergeant  George  Fayer- 
banke.) 

Committee  chosen  by  the  town  to  consider  the 
complaint  of  George  Fayerbanke  and  view  the  cartway 
across  Boggestowe  Brooke  at  ye  mill. 

1669.  Committee  chosen  by  Medfield  to  join  with  one  from 
Mendon  "for  the  settling  of  the  Common  Rode  way 
from  town  to  town."  (Afterward  the  old  Hartford  Post 
Road.) 

Hinsdell  sells  his  mill  to  Peter  Woodward. 

1670.  Highway  from  Great  Bridge  to  Mendon  laid  out. 

1672.  Boston  and  New  York  post  established  through  Hart- 
ford, via  Dedham,  Medfield  and  Mendon. 

Medfield  paid  21£  4s  to  John  Aw  ash  nog,  a  Natick 
Indian,  in  settlement  of  his  claim  to  land  in  the  New 
Grant. 

1674.  George  Fayerbanke  was  a  principal  citizen  in  the  new 
town  of  Sherborn  from  this  date  until  1681,  holding 
town  office  several  years.  Medfield  afterward  protest- 
ed and  collected  taxes  from  his  estate. 


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1675.  Sixty  persons  in  Medfield  and  the  Farms  subscribe  to 
the  new  Brick  College.     (Harvard). 

Out  of  fourteen  families-  at  Boggestowe  Farms, 
seven  live  within  the  limits  of  original  Medway. 
George  Fayerbanke,  George  Fayerbanke,  Jr.,  Joseph 
Daniel,  Jonathan  Adams,  Peter  Calley,  John  Fussell 
and  William  Allen.     (Thirty  souls.) 

Mill  in  Boggestowe  destroyed  by  Indians. 

1676.  Medfield  surprised  at  daybreak,  Feb.  21st,  by  Indians 
under  King  Philip.  Nearly  half  the  houses  and  barns 
on  the  east  side  of  the  river  burned.  Seventeen  per- 
sons killed.  Savages  retire  across  Great  Bridge,  which 
they  burn,  and  hold  a  feast  on  what  is  now  the  Moses 
Adams  farm  in  Millis.  The  spot  is  marked  by  a  group 
of  Tupello  trees  which  have  been  called  the  King  Philip 
tiees  for  over  two  hundred  years. 


KING  PHILIP  TREES. 


John  Fussell,  nearly  one  hundred  years  old,  burned 
by  the  Indians  in  Jonathan  Adams'  house.  All  the 
rest  of  the  dwellers  at  the  farms  were  in  George  Fayer- 
banke's  palisade. 

Jonathan  Wood  killed  by  Indians  at  Deaths  bridge. 
His  brother  Eleazer  struck  down  by  a  tomahawk, 
scalped  and  left  for  death,  but  afterwards  recovered. 


IP 

1676.  Five  dwellings  burned  by  the  Indians  on  the  west  side 
of  the  river.  (Those  of  George  Fayerbanke,  Jr.,  Joseph 
Daniel,  William  Allen,  Jonathan  Adams  and  Peter 
Calley.) 

Feb.  22.  Indians  make  an  attack  on  the  palisades 
at  the  farms,  but  are  repulsed  and  retire  to  the  south- 
ward. 

Feb.  22.  Fayerbanke  palisade  sheltered  six  fam- 
ilies from  Sherborn  side,  numbering  38  souls,  and  six 
families  from  Medway  side,  30  souls. 

May  6th.  Another  Indian  attack  on  the  palisades, 
burning  arrows  shot  over  and  a  cart  loaded  with  burn- 
ing flax  rolled  down  the  hill  in  an  attempt  to  fne  the 
place.  For  a  second  time  the  Indians  are  repulsed  and 
beaten  off. 

July  2nd.  A  band  of  Indians  found  near  the 
farms.  With  help  from  Medfield  town,  they  are  driven 
away  and  the  war  was  ended  in  this  locality. 

Abraham  Harding  completed  the  first  frame  house 
on  this  side  of  the  river. 

1677.  Josiah  and  John  Rockwood  build.     (On  land  near  Oak 

Grove  Farm  in  Millis.) 

1678.  John  Richardson  becomes  a  citizen  on  the  west  side  of 
the  river.  (On  the  farm  now  occupied  by  E.  F.  Rich- 
ardson, a  lineal  descendant ) 

1680.  Peter  Adams  and  Samuel  Daniel  remove  to  the  Farms. 

1681.  Vincent  Shuttleworth  settled  near  the  Joseph  Daniel 
place.  He  was  afterward  fined  4£  for  deserting  from 
the  impress  to  fight  Indians  and  was  the  first  town  pau- 
per. 

John  Partridge,  John  Adams  and  John  Clark  move 
across  the  river  and  become  settlers. 

Medfield  votes  to  give  fifty  acres  of  land  to  anyone 
who  would  build  a  grist  mill  on  the  river.  This  mill 
was  built  where  the  Rockville  Felt  Mill  now  stands. 

1682.  George  Fayerbanke,  Sr.,  the  first  settler,  drowned 
while  crossing  the  river. 


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1685.  Colony  of  Massachusetts  Bay  agrees  to  pay  half  the 
expense  of  building  Great  Bridge,  "as  it  is  a  County 
way." 

Gamaliel  Hinsdale  was  appointed  to  prosecute  John 
Sunchamang,  an  Indian,  suspected  of  firing  the  mill. 
(At  Rockville ) 

1686.  The  Great  Bridge,  burned  by  the  Indians  ten  years 
previous,  this  year  rebuilt. 

Granted  Joseph  Daniel  the  stream  of  Boggestowe 
Brook  if  he  would  maintain  a  grist  mill. 

1688.     Jonathan  Adams,  second,  a  settler  on  the  west  bank. 

John  Pond  built  on  the  south  bank  of  the  river  on 
Wrentham  land.  (This  house,  now  standing  and  owned 
by  Monroe  Morse,  is  the  oldest  house  in  Medway.) 

1691.  Oct.  7.  Union  of  Massachusetts  and  Plymouth  Colo- 
nies by  Uoyal  Charter. 

1692.  May  14.  Sir  Win.  Phips  arrives  in  Boston  with  new 
charter. 

1693.  Samuel  Hill,  Joseph  Daniel,  2nd,  and  Jonathan  Fisher 
become  settlers. 

George  Fayerbanke  and  Joseph  Daniel  two  of  the 
selectmen  of  Medfield. 

1695.     Joseph  Daniel  a  selectman  of  Medfield. 

1698.  Medfield  raises  12£  10s  to  be  expended  for  schooling, 
"50  shillings  on  the  West  Bank  of  the  river." 

1699.  B£  raised  for  schooling  on  the  West  Bank  and  Ser- 
geant Joseph  Daniel  chosen  to  take  care  of  same. 

1700.  "Payed  unto  Peter  Adams  for  his  wife's  keeping 
School  on  that  side  of  the  river,  it  being  the  full  of  his 
due,  2£  9s  lid."  And  Mrs.  Adams  was  Med  way's  first 
school  teacher. 

1702.  Black  Swamp  laid  out  in  one  hundred  and  twenty-three 
lots  and  given  to  Medfield  owners.  Twenty  six  allotted 
to  settlers  on  the  West  Bank. 

1704.     Voted  school  to  be  kept  on  both  sides  of  the  river,  pro- 


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JOSEPH  DANIEL  HOUSE. 


portionately  to  the  charges  of  the  inhabitants  on  either 
side. 
1705.  Medfield  votes  to  build  a  new  Meeting  House.  "The 
inhabitants  on  the  West  Side  of  the  river  shall  have 
half  their  pay  toward  building  refunded  if  they  build  a 
Meeting  House  on  that  side  within  twenty  years." 

George  Fayerbanke  and  Joseph  Daniel  are  appointed 
and  act  on  this  committee  in  charge  of  building  the 
new  Meeting  House. 

1710.  Edward  Clark  moves  from  Medfield  and  builds  the  Clark 
Homestead,  now  standing  in  Millis,  the  oldest  in  town. 

Timothy  Clark,  brother  of  Edward,  starts  a  tavern 
on  the  old  Hartford  Road.  (Now  the  Dr.  Emerson 
place,  so  called,  in  Medway  ) 

1711.  Timothy  Clark,  Constable  to  collect  taxes  on  this  side 
of  the  river. 

Nathaniel  Whiting  comes  from  Wrentham  and  builds 
a  grist  mill  and  dwelling  at  the  falls  on  the  river.  (The 
site  now  occupied  by  the  Sanford  Mills.  This  property 
remained  in  the  possession  of  his  descendants  until 
1864.) 


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OLD  CLARK  HOUSE. 


173  2.  July  12.  The  dwellers  on  the  west  bank  of  the  river 
petition  the  General  Court  for  a  division. 

1713.  The  General  Court  recommends  that  Medfleld  build  an- 
other meeting  house  on  the  west  bank  of  the  river 
but  on  March  9th  the  town  petitions  declaring  "their 
inability  to  do  so." 

A  committee  sent  out  from  Boston  reports  to  the 
Court  in  favor  of  a  division  of  Medfleld. 

George  Fairbanks  empowered  by  the  General  Court 
to  notify  and  summon  voters  for  the  first  town  meet- 
ing. 

October  25th  a  bill  was  passed  by  the  General  Court 
for  the  incorporation  of  the  Town  of  Med  way  (in  the 
12th  year  of  the  reign  of  Queen  Anne).  Honorable  Jo- 
seph Dudley, Provincial  Governor  of  Massachusetts  Bay. 

Nov.  23.  First  town  meeting  held  at  home  of  Peter 
Adams.  John  Rocket  chosen  town  clerk.  John  Rocket, 
Sergeant  Samuel  Partridge,  Jonathan  Adams,  Jr.,  Ser- 
geant Jonathan  Adams,  Edward  Clark,  Selectmen. 

1714.  Med  way's  proportion  of  the  Province  tax,  52£  14s. 

First  Meeting  House  built  on  Bare  Hill. 

First  death  recorded  in  Town  Book,  Sarah  Rocket. 


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1714.  22£  9s  4d  received  from  Medfield  to  help  build  the 
Meeting  House. 

June  3.  First  birth  recorded  in  Town  Book,  that 
of  Samuel  Richardson. 

First  public  worship  in  the  town  October  7th  at  the 
house  of  Peter  Adams,  whose  drum  called  the  people  to 
meeting. 

Burial  place  laid  out  on  Bare  Hill.  (Now  the  older 
part  of  the  Millis  cemetery.) 

First  Church  of  Christ  organized. 


FIRST   CHURCH. 


1715.  Rev.  David  Demming  called  as  Minister,  with  a  yearly 
salary  of  52£. 

Rev.  David  Demming  granted  60£  yearly  by  the 
town  Sept.  12,  and  the  same  day  he  accepted 

Stony  Plain  Road  laid  out  June  4th. 

Joseph  Daniel,  second  settler,  died,  aged  eighty. 

Granted  to  Rev.  David  Demming  28  acres  south- 
ward of  ye  Meeting  House.  (Now  owned  by  Charles  La 
Croix  in  Millis.) 

Proprietors  of  undivided  land  in  Medfield  and  Med- 
way  hold  a  joint  meeting. 

1716.  Sarah  and   Abigail   Allion   first    twins    born    in    the 
town. 

Sarah  Adams  drowned  in  a  spring  near  her  fath- 
er's house  April  1. 

1717.  Rev.  David  Demming  acknowledges   his   gratification 
and  ministerial  salary  in  the  Town  Book. 


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1717.  May  13.  4£  voted  for  building  a  pound  and  keeping 
a  school. 

1718.  Voted  2£  for  a  school. 

1719.  Voted  to  put  in  a  casement  not  to  exceed  four  feet  of 
glass  in  Meeting  House. 

Voted  the  minister's  pew  to  be  next  the  pulpit. 

1720.  Highway  laid  out  from  "Bouggusty  Neck  to  ye  brook 
commonly  known  as  Charles  Brook." 

1721.  First  tea  set  brought  into  town  by  Timothy  Clark, 
Tavern  Keeper.  (The  sugar  bowl  is  still  in  the  posses- 
sion of  a  descendant.) 

1722.  Rev.  David  Demming  dismissed  from  the  pastorate  of 
the  First  Church  at  his  request. 

May  14.  Town  loans  rated  at  "12  pence  on  ye 
pound."  No  person  to  borrow  above  20£  nor  under 
10£  and  one  Bonus  man  be  required." 

1723.  Dea.  Peter  Adams  died  Dec.  8th. 

1724.  Rev.  Nathan  Bucknam  of  Boston  called  to  First 
Church. 

Dec.  23  Rev.  Nathan  Bucknam  ordained  and  in- 
stalled at  twenty-one  years  of  age. 

3£  10s  voted  to  make  glass  windows  in  the  Meet- 
ing House. 

1725.  Fence  Viewers  first  chosen. 

1726.  On  Nov.  30th  the  town  committee  perambulated  the 
bounds  with  a  Holliston  committee  "until  the  later  not 
being  fully  satisfied  broke  off." 

First  Noon  House  built  by  Lieut.  Bullard  and  Sergt. 
Hill  near  the  Meeting  House. 

Jonathan  Adams  first  representative  to  the  Gene- 
ral Court. 

The  northern  part  of  the  New  Grant  called  Mucks- 
quit  in  the  town  record. 
1728.     March  4.     All   town   bills   paid   and  1£  Is  9d  in  the 
treasury. 


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1730.  Town  fined  16£  lis  7d  for  not  sending  a  representa- 
tive. 

Voted  "to  buy  a  burying  cloth  *yt  is  deacent  for  ye 
town'". 

Jonathan  Adams  representative. 

About  this  date  Bears  ceased  to  be  troublesome 
around  Winthrop  Pond. 

1731.  Proposed  to  have  Meeting  House  in  the  "Senter"  of 
the  town.     Negatived. 

Voted  to  sing  Psalms  the  old  way.  Jonathan  Par- 
tridge chosen  to  lead. 

1732.  Feb.  9.  Selectmen  warned  Mary  Burnit  out  of  town 
before  Feb.  13th. 

Voted  30s  to  Doctor  Jairo  for  "nsicking  Hezikiah 
Vickkors". 

1733.  Potatoes  began  to  be  planted  in  Massachusetts. 

Voted  to  choose  three  assessors  to  make  the  rates. 
Paid  John  Richardson  for  sweeping  the    Meeting 
House  1  year,  16s. 

Voted  swine  shall  go  at  large. 

1733.  On  March  5,  Rev.  Mr.  Bucknam  came  into  open  town 
meeting  and  declared  that  his  salary  was  not  sufficient 
for  his  support,  whereupon  the  town  voted  him  20£ 
more. 

1734.  Selectmen  procure  a  book  at  the  town's  expense  to  re- 
cord births  and  marriages  in. 

Town  Pound  built  by  Michael  Metcalf  for  7£ 

1735.  Edward  Clark  representative. 

"Paid  Mr.  Salter  of  Boston  for  one  hundred  weight  of 
bullets,  for  one  half  bbi.  of  powder  and  one  hundred 
flints  15£  15s." 

Several  families  living  near  Long  Walk  brook  in 
Wrentham  set  off  to  Medway. 

1736.  First  Covenant  signed  by  members  of  the  First  Church. 

Rev.  Nathan  Bucknam  sold  his  Negro  Boy  London 
to  Jasper  Adams  for  140£. 


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1737.     First  schoolhouse  built. 

Town  paid  Seth  Harding  for  "killing  a  'wild  catt' 
1£." 

Eight  voters  request  to  be  set  off  from  the  New 
Giant  to  Holliston,  "negatived." 

Samuel  Metcalf,  representative. 

Mar.  7.  Voted  to  build  three  schoolhouses,  one  at 
the  East  part,  one  in  the  New  Grant,  and  one  at  uye 
Bent  of  ye  river." 

May  16.  Town  refused  to  grant  any  money  for 
building  schoolhouses. 

17  88.     Jeremiah  Adams,  representative. 

Lieutenant  Daniel  Richardson  and  Deacon  John 
Barber  first  jurymen  drawn  from  Med  way. 

1739.  Edward  ("lark,  representative. 

London  and  Sambo,  negroes  baptized  by  Mr.  Buck- 
nam. 

Town  joins  with  Wrentham  in  building  a  bridge 
over  Charles  River  at  "The  falls."  (The  site  of  the 
Franklin  Bridge  in  Medway.) 

1740.  First  persons  bound  out  by  the   town.     Elizabeth    and 
Mercy  Vickors  bound  out  to  Hugh  Brown. 

Edward  Clark  first  town  treasurer. 

1741.  Church  refused  to  allow  baptism  of  a  negro  child  until 
of  age. 

Jeremiah  Adams,  representative. 

Town  paid  48s  to  Samuel  Daniel  for  "boarding  ye 
School  Mrs.  and  for  house  room  to  keep  ye  school." 

Stephen,  slave  of  Lieut.Timothy  Clark,  and  Charles, 
slave  of  Capt.  Nathaniel  Whiting,  baptized  by  Rev.  Na- 
than Bucknam. 

1742.  Town  paid  almost  20£  this  year  for  bounties  on  squir- 
rels and  blackbirds  killed. 

1743.  Oct.  13.     "Thanksgiving  Day  for  ye  Kings  victory ." 

1744.  Town   pays   45£  5s  to  find  out  the  exact  centre  of  its 
territory. 

Town  meeting  called  to  order  and  moderator  chosen 


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in  the  open  air  on  the  exact  geographical  centre  of  the 
town.  Then  adjourned  to  the  Meeting  House  on  Bare 
Hill  and  voted  not  to  build  a  new  meeting  house  in  the 
centre  of  the  town. 

1745.  Captain  Nathaniel  Whiting  impressed  sixty-five  men 
this  year  for  service  in  the  French  and  English  war. 

45£  expended  this  year  for  maintaining  five  schools. 
July  18.     Thanksgiving   day    for  victory  at   Cape 
Briton. 

1746.  Upon  the  incorporation  of  the  west  precinct  in  Wren- 
tham,  six  families  set  off  from  Medway  to  Wrentham 
where  they  originally  belonged. 

30£  old  tenor  paid  to  "New  Grant  Neibors"  for  four 
months'  preaching  in  the  winter  time. 

Esquire  Edward  Clark  died,  aged  67. 

Paid  Uriah  Morse  for  entertainiagthe  Selectmen  1£ 
6s. 

1747.  Town  votes  not  to  maintain  two  ministers,  one  at  the 
east  and  one  in  the  New  Grant. 

Benjamin  Gould  killed  by  a  tree  in  Black  Swamp, 
Jan.  14. 

1748.  Seven  storms  in  February  and  enormous  drifts. 

Captain  Nathaniel  Whiting  and  forty- eight  other  in- 
habitants of  the  New  Grant  petition  the  General  Court 
for  a  new  precinct. 

Paid  l£  to  John  Carpenter  for  "marching  soldiers." 
West  precinct  established  by  the  General  Court. 

1749.  Voted  "an  equal  or  suitable  quantity  of  Cyder  Rum 
and  Beer  and  a  baiting  furnished  to  the  men  engaged 
in  raising  the  new  meeting-house  at  first  Precinct." 

Separation  of  town  and  church  in  town  records. 

First  Meeting  House  burned  Jan.  L8. 

First  precinct  organized  Feb.  3rd. 

Second  meeting  house  built  on  Bare  Hill  and  occu- 
pied first  time  May  21st. 

First  meeting  house  built  in  west  precinct,  site  op- 
posite Winthrop  St. 

25£  voted  for  a  military  company  in  the  New  Grant- 


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1750.  "Chicking  Brook"  first  mentioned  in  Town  Book. 

Town  stocks  built. 

Second  Church  organized,  covenant  signed  by  thir- 
ty-four persons. 

Second  burying  place  laid  out.  (Now  the  old  part 
of  Evergreen  Cemetery,  West  Medway.) 

1751.  Mendon  Association  of  ministers  formed. 

First  town  meeting  held  at  the  west  precinct  May 
15  th. 

1752.  Rev.  David  Thurston  of  Wrentham  ordained  as  minis- 
ter of  the  Second  precinct  Church  June  23. 

1753.  Captain  Nathaniel  Whiting  and  John  Pond  chosen 
ruling  elders  of  the  west  precinct  Church. 

Hope  Lovell  accepted  by  the  town  as  constable 
"notwithstanding  his  being  removed  out  of  the  town 
bounds." 

1753-4.  Year  of  the  great  mortality  in  Sherborn  and  Hollis- 
ton  ;  53  persons  died  in  Holliston  in  two  months,  41  in 
22  days.     Medway  apparently  exempt. 

1754.  Jonathan  Adams,  Jr.,  gave  the  town  1£  4s  and  it  was 
accepted  and  put  in  the  town  treasury. 

Mr.  Eleazer  Adams, a  Baptist,  fined  for  non-payment 
of  Ministerial  rates.  On  his  refusal  to  pay  the  fines,  he 
was  carried  to  Boston  and  imprisoned. 

Sixty  men  from  the  town  did  duty  in  the  French 
and  English  war. 

1755.  "Dear  Reives"   John  Carpenter  and   Moses  Thompson. 

1756.  Forty -two  men  did  duty  as  Provincial  soldiers. 

1757.  The  French  family  of  Neutrals  assigned  to  the  town, 
cost  9£  18s  2d  this  year. 

1758.  Jonathan  Adams,  representative. 

Ninety-four  men  served  in  the  war  against  the 
French  this  year. 

One  hundred  weight  of  beef  bought  for  the  French 
family. 

1759.  Fifty  men  on  the  war  pay  roll. 


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1759.  Seventeen    Med  way    men  in  Fort  Cumberland,  Nova 
Scotia,  in  Captain  Adams'  company. 

1760.  Elisha  Adams,  representative.     Also  '63  and  '65. 

Voted  to  allow  four  pence  an  hour  to  a  man  that 
labors  on  the  roads. 

Voted  to  build  a  house  for  the  poir,  eighteen  feet 
square,  without  chimney  room.     10£  voted. 

Aug.  20.  The  General  Court  assigns  a  family  of 
French  Neutrals  to  this  town.  James  Oaiiro,  his  wife 
Lucy,  Nistazza,  the  daughter,  and  Barzilla,  the  son. 

On  Nov.  24th  Lieutenant  Theophilus  Clark,  aged 
forty-four,  and  his  sou,  Jothara,  aged  seventeen,  having 
been  engaged  in  the  defence  of  their  country,  on  the 
way  from  the  camp  to  their  friends,  they  died. 

1761.  Town   votes   to  appropriate   the    10£   voted    the   year 
previous  for  a  house  for  the  poor  for  schools. 

1762.  Sambo,  a  negro  man,  late  of  VVrentham,  warned  out  of 
town. 

1763.  Elisha  Adams,  representative. 

Voted  to  sell  the  law  books  now  in  the  treasury 
for  the  most  they  will  fetch. 

The  Stamp  Act  passed  by  the  English  Parliament. 

1764.  30£  spent  for  schools. 

1765.  First  Town  Census.      Houses  123,   females  388,  males 
380,  negroes  17.     Total  785. 

Elisha  Adams  representative  to  General  Court  and 
this  year  the  town  votes  instructions  for  his  conduct, 
ordering  him  to  work  against  the  Stamp  Act. 

1766.  Jonathan  Adams,  representative.     Also  '67. 

A  committee  of  three  chosen  to  seat  the  meeting 
house. 

1767.  Jonathan  Adams,  representative. 

1768.  Elisha  Adams,  representative. 

Ishmael  and  Hannah   Coffee,   negroes,  have  sixteen 
children  born  to  them  between  this  date  and  179  3. 

Town  votes  to  accept  from  Widow  Mary  Adams 
"her  negro  and  other  articles." 


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1768.  Town   concurs    with  town    of    Boston    by    vote     "to 
lessen  the  use  of  superfluities  imported  from  afar." 

1769.  Jonathan  Adams,  representative. 

Reverend  David  Thurston  granted  dismissal  from 
church  in  second  precinct. 

Special  seats  built  in  meeting  house  of  First 
Church  for  negroes. 

Caesar  Hunt,  a  slave,  buys  his  freedom  of  Joseph 
Lowell  for  13£  6s  8d. 

1770.  Town  votes  unanimously  to  forego  the  purchase  or  use 
of  tea. 

Negroes,  Mulattoes  and  Indians  prohibited  sitting 
or  standing  in  any  of  alleys  or  stairs  of  the  meeting 
house. 

Coffee  begun  to  be  used. 

Voted  to  forego  the  purchase  of  any  goods  that  are 
imported  from  Great  Britain. 

First  auditing  of  accounts  of  the  town  officers. 

1771.  Town  paid  2s  to  Simeon  Fisher  "for  rum  for  workmen 
in  the  water  at  the  bridge/' 

1772.  Aug.  16.     "Dyed.     Seth  Barber,  aged  some  minnets." 
Town  records. 

Bounty  of  Is  offered  for  each  crow  killed  in  town. 

1773.  Committee  of  Correspondence  chosen  by  the  town. 

Rev.  David  Sanford  of  New  Milford,  Connecticut, 
installed  minister  over  church  in  west  precinct, 
April  14. 

Town  votes  that  any  head  of  a  family  buying  or 
using  tea  will  be  viewed  as  an  enemy  of  the  country. 

1774.  Daniel    Adams  first   Medway   boy   to  graduate   from 
Harvard. 

Town    adds  100  lbs.  of   powder,  200  lbs.  of   bullets 
and  200  flints  to  its  stock  of  ammunition. 
Two  iron  field  pieces  bought  by  town. 

A  subscription  gotten  up  and  forwarded  to  the 
suffering  people  in  Boston. 

Town  doubles  its  store  of  ammunition. 


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1774.  Paid    Captain    Turner   for   iron  work   and   a   journey 
for  the  cannon  6£  5s. 

13£  10s  voted  to  the  minute  men  of  the  town  as  a 
bounty. 

1775.  Jan.  9.     Thirty  pounds  voted  to  encourage  enlistment 
in  the  military  company. 

Captain  Jonathan  Adams  and  Lieutenant  Moses 
Adams,  delegates  to  Provin3ial  Congress  at  Watertown. 

The  two  cannon  carried  to  camp  at  Roxbury  and 
thus  lost  to  the  town. 

Church  in  west  precinct  abolishes  half  way  cove- 
nant. 

Second  Church  withdraws  fellowship  from  First 
Church. 

Forty- three  coats  furnished  to  soldiers  in  service 
of  Massachusetts. 

Captain  Jonathan  Adams  chosen  repiesentative  to 
the  Provincial  Congress  at  Cambridge. 

April  19.  Thirty-seven  men  from  the  east  parish 
and  twenty-seven  from  the  New  Grant  answer  the 
Concord  and  Lexington  alarm. 

Nineteen  men  from  Old  Grant  serve  at  Roxbury 
and  Cambridge  eight  months. 

George  Washington  is  said  to  have  dined  at  the 
Richardson  Tavern  in  East  Med  way  on  his  way  to 
.  Cambridge. 

Twenty-two  men  from  Medway  serve  under  Cap- 
tain Boyd  at  Fort  No.  2. 

Several  Medway  men  fought  at  Bunker  Hill. 

Town  refuses  with  other  towns  to  divide  Suffolk 
County  and  form  a  new  one  to  be  called  Hancock. 

Z£  4s  6d  paid  for  crows  and  hawks  killed  this  year. 

Town  ceases  to  issue  the  town  warrants  in  his 
Majesty's  name. 

Medway  sends  two  representatives  to  General  Court 
this  year,  Moses  Adams  and  Jonathan  Adams. 

1776.  Oct.  26.     John  Barber  dies  at  Ticonderoga. 

Oct.  26.  Lieutenant  John  Pond  died  in  the  Con- 
tinental service  at  Fort  George. 


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1776.  Aug.  23.     Seth  Mason  died  at  Tioonderoga. 

Oct.  17.     Nathan  Fisher  died  at  Tioonderoga. 

Rev.  David  Sanford  commissioned  chaplain  of  Col. 
Samuel  Robinson's  regiment,  by  command  of  the  Ameri- 
can Congress,  at  Watertown,  Jan.  23rd. 

Sixteen  men  serve  with  the  Continental  army  in 
New  York  and  eleven  in  the  "Jarsees". 

For  the  first  time  warrants  issued  in  the  name  of 
the  Government  and  People  of  Massachusetts  Bay. 

Elijah  Clark,  representative.     Also '77-'78-'79. 

Population,  White,  897.     Negroes,  13. 

1777.  Ozias  Metcalf  died  Nov.  29th  in  the  service  at  Phila- 
delphia. 

Taxes  of  twenty-four  Continental  soldiers  abated 
on  account  of  the  suffering  and  hardship  they  endured 
the  year  previous. 

1778.  Josiah  Ide,  aged  21,  died  June  16  in  Falmouth,  Casco 
Bay,  as  he  was  returning  from  Privateering. 

1779.  Major  Luther  Metcalf  starts  the   Cabinet  business  in 
Medway.     (On  the  site  of  the  Village  Inn.) 

Vote  of  town  on  proposed  form  of  government  for 
the  State  of  Massachusetts  Bay.  For  approbation  2, 
for  disapprobation  58. 

Rev.  David  Sanford  delegate  to  the  Cambridge 
convention  to  form  a  constitution  for  the  Common- 
wealth. 

Esquire  Nathaniel  Partridge  chosen  delegate  to  the 
Concord  convention  to  regulate  the  prices  of  necessaries. 


OLD   SCHOOL  HOUSE. 


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1780.  Jonathan  Adams,  representative.     Also '81. 

Honorable  John  Hancock  received  24  out  of  a  total 
of  28  votes  in  Med  way  for  Governor. 

New  Grant  petitions  for  a  separate  township,  but 
the  project  is  passed  in  the  negative. 

Town  tax  for  the  year  61213£. 

May  19.     The  famous  dark  day. 

Slavery  abolished  by  the  Constitution. 

Town  lost  thirteen  men  in  the  Revolutionary  war. 

Col.  Amos  Turner  starts  scythe  and  edge  tool  busi- 
ness at  "Rock  Bottom." 

Job  Harding  builds  Tavern  and  store  at  Medway. 
(On  site  now  occupied  by  New  Medway  Hotel.) 

Town  votes  unanimously,  127  voting,  not  to  accept 
the  new  State  Constitution. 

Town  votes  to  endorse  a  plan  f  jr  a  new  County, 
with  Medfield  as  the  Shire  town. 

John  Harding's  freed  negro,  Boston,  takes  name  of 
Prince  Royal  and  afterward  accumulates  considerable 
property. 

1781.  One  silver  dollar  worth  seventy  five  dollars  in  paper 
money. 

Dollars  mentioned  for  first  time  in  town  records. 
Theodore  Clark,  Gentleman,  commissioned  Second 
Lieutenant  of  Militia  by  Governor  Hancock. 

1782.  Abijah  Fairbank,  constable. 

Captain  Moses  Adams,  representative.     Also  '83. 

1783.  Jabez  Shumway  buys  the  farm  of  William  Ellis  at 
West  Medway.  It  remained  in  the  Shumway  family 
for  one  hundred  and  twenty  years. 

1784.  Joseph  Lovell,  representative. 

1785.  Elijah  Clark,  representative. 

Job  Harding  buys  half  interest  in  Samuel  Bullens' 
Fulling  mill  at  Medway,  and  also  operates  a  saw-mill. 

About  this  time,  according  to  Rev.  Nathan  Buck- 
nam,  the  annual  average  of  births  was  22,  deaths  6, 
marriages  12. 


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1785.  Number  of  inhabitants  850,  dwelling  houses  137, 
other  buildings  144. 

Town  "Produces  Plentiful  Crops  of  Grain  many 
times  more  than  is  sufficient  for  ye  Inhabitants."  Rev. 
N.  Bucknam. 

First  time  a  middle  initial  appears  in  town  records. 
Amos  B.  Albee  warned  out  of  town. 

1786.  Town  votes  to  petition  the  General  Court  for  a  more 
easy  passage  for  salt  water  fish  up  Charles  River. 
(Note :  In  early  times  herring  and  alewives  used  to 
spawn  in  Populatic  Pond  and  the  brooks  in  the  town.) 

1787.  Eli  Bullard  first  graduate  from  Yale. 

Moses  Richardson  representative,  also  '88-'89-'90- 
'91-'92-'93,  his  compensation  fixed  by  towa  at  4s  6d  per 
day;  all  in  excess  of  this  sum  paid  by  state  to  return 
to  town. 

1788.  Rev.  Benjamin  Green  settled  as  colleague  with  Rev. 
Nathan  Bucknam  at  First  Church. 

1789.  Samuel  Hill,  the  last  one  of  the  original  founders  of 
the  town,  Bie3  this  year. 

President  George  Washington  passes  through 
Medway  on  his  return  from  Boston  to  Hartford. 

Rev.  Joel  Hawes,  D.  D ,  born  at  the  old  Hawes 
place  in  Medway. 

1790.  Population  1035. 

May  3.  The  choice  of  a  representative  was  put  off 
four  days  on  account  of  the  military  companies  being 
mustered  for  viewing  arms. 

Comfort  Walker,  millwright,  moves  from  Killing- 
ley,  Conn.,  and  builds  homestead  and  mill  on  the  Flat 
in  Medway. 

1791.  Selectmen  approbate  Moses  Richardson  to  be  an  inn- 
holder  and  Luther  Metcalf  and  Abner  Ellis  "retailers  of 
spirituous  lyquors"  for  the  year  ensuing. 

1792.  In  January  the  selectmen  warned  155  persons  living  in 
the  New  Grant  to  depart  from  the  town.  Among  this 
number  were  Major  Luther  Metcalf  and  family,  Philo 


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Sanford  and  family,  Comfort  Walker,  Jabez  Shumway, 
and  many  other  substantial  citizens. 

In  February  the  selectmen  warn  137  persons  in  the 
Old  Grant  to  leave  the  town  of  Medway.  (About  this 
date  the  town  ceases  to  issue  these  warnings.) 

Metcalf  homestead  (now  the  Village  Inn),  built  at 
Medway. 
1793.     Town  poor  bid  off  to  the  lowest  bidder.     Simeon  Cut- 
ler  gets  Widow   Wheeton  at  4s  5d   per  week,  Elisha 
Richardson,  the  Widow  Hannah  Richardson  at  3s. 

Present  Norfolk  County  established. 

Abner  Morse,  afterward  noted  as  a  local  historian, 
born  in  Medway. 

Town  votes   not    to   set   apart   any    building   for 
"enoeulating  with  the  Small  Pox." 
1791.     First  year  swine  were  not  allowed  to  go  at  large. 

1795.  Town  accounts  drawn  up  for  the  first  time  this  year  in 
dollars,  cents  and  mills. 

First  guide  boards  set  up  in  the  town. 

Price  fixed  for  a  man  or  a  good  team  at  work  on 
the  highway  6c  per  hour. 

Feb.  6.  Rev.  Nathan  Bucknam  died  at  the  age  of  92. 
Seventy-one  years  he  was  pastor  of  the  First  Church,  a 
record  not  eqalled  before  or  since  in  Massachusetts. 

Feb.  12.  Rev.  NathaH  Bucknam  buried  on  a 
Thursday  afternoon.  Rev.  Mr.  Haven  of  Dedham,  Rev. 
Mr.  Prentiss  of  Medfield  and  Rev.  Mr.  Caryl  of  Dover 
officiating.     The  entire  church  walked  in  the  procession. 

Eliakim  Adams,  representative.     Also  '96. 

Job  Harding's  Mill  for  dressing  cloth  built  on  the 
Flat  in  Medway. 

Misunderstanding  arose  this  year  between  the  first 
and  second  churches  that  lasted  thirty-two  years. 

1796.  May  1.  Mrs.  Bucknam,  widow  of  Rev.  Nathan  Buck- 
nam, died,  aged  91  years.  She  and  her  husband  had 
lived  together  67  years.  Her  funeral  was  conducted  by 
Rev.  Mr.  Haven  of  Dedham. 

May  25.     Eighteen    members   form   the    Medway 


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1797. 
1798. 
1799. 

1800. 


1800. 


1801. 


branch  of  the  Norfolk  and  Bristol  Horse  Thief  Detect- 
ing Society. 

Abner  Morse  allowed  his  proportion  on  school 
money,  "he  to  pay  at  Sherborn,  where  he  has  privi- 
leges." 

Moses  Richardson,  representative. 

Rev.  Luther  Wright  pastor  of  First  Church. 

Abner  Morse,  representative.     Also  1800. 

Population  1050. 

Job  Harding  sells  out  his  store  and  tavern,  and  his 
mill  to  Capt.  William  Felt  and  goes  to  Maine. 

For  many  years  all  newly-married  men  were  elect- 
ed "Hog  Reives"  at  the  annual  April  meeting. 
Capt.  Nathan  Jones  first  licensed  auctioneer  in  Medway. 

Moses  Daniels  drowned  Oct.  20th  in  the  flume  of 
his  grist  mill  in  Boggestowe  brook. 
Moses  Richardson,  representative.     Also  1802. 


THE   OLD  COTTON   MILL. 


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1802.  First  year  cattle  and  horses  were  restrained  from  go- 
ing  at  large. 

Court  of  Sessions  orders  many  changes  and  altera- 
tions to  straighten  the  old  Middle  Post  Road.  (Village 
street.) 

1803.  First  Post-Office  established  in  town  at  Medway.  Cap- 
tain William  Felt,  Postmaster.  (None  nearer  than 
Marlboro  on  the  north,  Dedham  on  the  east,  Wrentham 
on  the  south  and  Mendon  on  the  west.) 

John  Ellis,  representative. 

Town  votes  "that  poore  persons  that  have  but  one 
cow  may  let  their  animals  go  at  large." 

1804.  Selectmen  give  an  order  for  $12.00  to  Major  Nathan 
Jones  for  his  services  in  the  year  1803  and  1804,  in  sell- 
ing the  town's  wood  and  timber,  "and  for  spirituous 
liquors  necessarily  spent  therefor." 

Moses  Riahardson,  representative. 
First  printed  list  of  voters. 

1805.  First  school  committee  chosen.  School  districts  formed, 
six  in  number. 

Abner  Morse,  representative. 

Seven  paupers  bid  off  to  the  lowest  bidder  this 
year. 

1806.  Jeremiah  Daniels,  representative. 

Mill  for  making  cotton  goods  built  on  the  site  of 
the  Whiting  grist  mill  at  Medway. 

Medway  Cotton  Manufacturing  Company  organized 
by  Philo  Sanford,  Luther  Metcalf,  Comfort  Walker,  Capt. 
William  Felt,  Dr.  Nathaniel  Miller,  Dr.  Abijah  Rich- 
ardson, and  John  Blackburn,  (the  third  in  the  country). 

Captain  Mason,  with  the  selectmen,  inspected  the 
cartridges  belonging  to  the  town  for  the  use  of  "the 
infantry  and  calvary  of  the  town." 

Cyrus  Bullard,  master  of  a  vessel,  drowned  at  St. 
Thomas  in  the  West  Indies. 

1807.  Selectmen  approbate  six  persons  to  sell  liquors  in  the 
town.     Moses  Richardson  and  Nathan  Jones,  innkeep- 


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RESIDENCE  OF  HON  LUTHER  METCALP 


ers,  and  William  Felt,  Moses  Bullen,  Ethan  Cobb   and 
Calvin  Cutler,  retailers. 

Turnpike  built  through  Black  Swamp. 

General  Eliakin  Adams  died  Nov.  30. 

1808.  Abner  Morse,  representative. 

1809.  Montgomery  Lodge  of  Masons  meet  in    Levi    Adams' 
tavern,  West  Med  way,  from  1809  until  1817. 

Dr.  Oliver  Dean  commenced  practice  of  medicine  in 
town. 

Moses  Richardson,  representative. 

Oct.  7.  Adam  Bullard  drowned  on  his  passage 
from  Hull,  England,  to  New  York. 

1810.  Captain  William  Felt,  representative. 

Rev.  David  Sanford  died  April  7. 

Population  1213. 

Captain  William  Felt  started  the  manufacture  of 
straw  goods,  employing  women  to  sew  hats.  (The  be- 
ginning of  the  industry  in  Medway ) 


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1810.  Powder  house  built  on  the  Edward  Clark  farm  to 
store  town  ammunition  in. 

Joel  Hawes  teaches  school  in  town  for  118  per 
month. 

1811.  Nathaniel  Whiting  homestead,  built  ill  1711,  burned. 

Philo  Sanford  builds  the  Sanford  mansion,  after- 
ward occupied  by  Rev.  David  Sanford,  in  Med  way. 

Medway  Cotton  Manufacturing  Company's  mill 
burned  and  rebuilt  the  same  year. 

Samuel  Richardson,  first  child  born  in  Medway, 
died  Feb.  10th,  in  his  99th  year. 

Captain  William  Felt  and  associates  build  lower 
mill  at  Medway. 

Moses  Richardson,  representative. 

1812.  Nathaniel  Lowell,  representative.     Also  '  13. 

Five  Medway  men  served  in  the  war  of  1812. 
Great   boom  at  Factory  Village ;  three  mills,  two 
large  tenements,  one  store  and  several  residences  built. 

1813.  Century  sermon  preached  by  Rev.  Luther  Wright, 
Nov.  4th,  at  the  First  Church.  Text :  "This  day  shall 
be  unto  you  for  a  memorial." 

"Yellow"  mill  built  at  Medway. 

Joel  Hawes  first  Medway  graduate  from  Brown 
University. 

Selectmen  appoint  an  Engine  Company  at  Medway. 

Town  passes  a  vote  to  form  the  whole  covvn  into 
one  religious  precinct  and  to  build  a  meeting  house  on 
the  old  Edward  Clark  farm,  but  the  vote  was  never  car- 
ried out. 

Metcalf  Hunt  &  Co.  build  a  cotton  mill  at  West 
Medway. 

1814.  Levi  Adams'  tavern  started,  (on  Holliston  land)  now 
West  Medway. 

Simeon  Fuller  starts  the  first  store  in  West  Med- 
way on  "Rabbitt  Hill." 

Rev.  Jacob  Ide  ordained  and  installed  pastor  of 
the  Second  Church  in  West  Medway. 


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1814.  Second  meeting  house  of  the  Second  Church  built 
on  Rabbitt  Hill. 

Parish  house  built  in  West  Precinct  across  the 
way  from  the  second  meeting  house  out  of  the  timbers 
of  the  old  first  meeting  house. 

May  town  meeting  held  in  new  parish  house. 

Town's  April  warrant  calls  for  the  election  of  two 
"Cenators." 

Sixteen  dollars  per  month  voted  to  all  soldiers 
from  this  town. 

Bell  for  Second  Precinct  meeting  house  bought  of 
and  cast  by  Paul  Revere. 

1815.  Deacon  Samuel  Allen  and  Captain  William  Green  en- 
gage in  the  manufacture  of  bass  viols  and  other  musi- 
cal instruments  at  West  Medway,  in  the  old  Plympton 
house. 

Cotton  Mill  built  on  river  at  West  Medway. 

Joseph  Adams  graduated  from  Yale  College. 

The  great  September  gale  wrought  havoc  in  Med- 
way, uprooting  huge  trees  and  blowing  over  the  stee- 
ple of  the  meeting  house  of  the  First  Precinct. 

Tythingmen  ordered  to  put  a  stop  to  all  unneces- 
sary travel  on  the  Lord's  day. 

New  meeting  house  built  on  Bare  Hill,  First  Pre- 
cinct. 

1816.  First  schoolhouse  built  at  "Factory  Village." 

Thread  mill  built  by  Sewall  Sanford  at  Medway. 

The  cold  year ;  frost  every  month ;  thick  ice 
foimed  September  2tith. 

Rev.  Luther  Bailey,  pastor  of  First  Church. 

Bell  Foundry  started  at  East  Medway  by  Col.  Hol- 
brook,  and  first  bell  cast. 

West  Parish  library  started  March  11th. 

Rev.  Jacob  Ide  homestead  built. 

School  district  made  of  Factory  Village. 

Town  votes,  52  to  24,  to  oppose  the  separation  of 
the  New  Grant  and  its  incorporation  as  a  separate 
township. 


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1817.  Proprietors  of  common  land  in   Med  field  and    Med  way 
close  up  affairs  and  divide  a  surplus  of  $152.80. 

Rev.  Jacob  Ide  publishes  his  famous  sermon  on  In- 
temperance. 

Dr.  Oliver  Dean  becomes  manager  of  Medway  Cot 
ton  Manufacturing  Company  and  remains  in  this  posi- 
tion until  1826. 

June  24.  Celebration  of  St.  John's  day  by  Mont- 
gomery lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. 

1818.  The  Stars  and  Stripes  become  the  National  flag. 

Montgomery  lodge,  Masons,  build  a  second  story 
on  the  Parish  house  at  the  West  Precinct  and  use  it  as 
a  lodge  room  until  1837. 

Comfort  Walker  and  son  build  a  cotton  factory  and 
machine  shop  at  Rock  Bottom. 

Town  votes  this  year  to  hold  its  town  meeting  two 
years  out  of  three  at  East  Medway  and  one  at  West 
Medway. 

Mar.  4.     Dedication  of  Masons'  Hall,  West  Parish. 

1819.  Second  Post -office  established  in  town  at  East  Medway. 
Timothy  Hammond,  Esq,  postmaster. 

A  Baptist  society  formed  in  town. 

1820.  Population  1525. 

Captain  William  Felt  delegate  to  the  Constitu- 
tional Convention  in  Boston. 

Michael  Martin,  alias  "Capt.  Lightfoot,"  a  noted 
highwayman  who  stole  Stephen  Adams'  colt,  taken  in 
Grafton.  Tried  in  the  old  Adams  house,  now  owned  by 
Richard  Mooney.  Taken  to  Cambridge  and  afterwards 
executed  for  murder. 

1821.  Town's  committee  recommends  the  following  as  school 
books  :  Alden's  Speller,  Murray's  Grammar,  Walker's 
Dictionary,  and  the  New  Testament. 

First  manufacture  of  carpets  by  machinery  in  this 
country  started  in  a  small  mill  on  Chicken  Brook  in 
West  Medway  by  Alexander  Wright  and  Henry  Bur- 
dett. 


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1822.  Dr.  Abijah  Richardson,  a   surgeon  in   the   Revolution, 
and  a  noted  doctor,  dies,  aged  70. 

William  T.  Adams,  (Oliver  Optic),  born  on  Ellis 
Street,  Medway,  July  30th. 

George  Barber,  Jr.,  representative.     Also  '24. 

Charles  C.  Allen,  17  years  of  age,  made  a  brass 
clock  which  still  keeps  time  in  the  meeting  house  of  the 
Second  Precinct. 

1823.  Seneca  Barber,  representative. 

First  Baptist  meeting  house  built  on  Turnpike, 
West  Medway. 

Luther  Metcalf  and  others  petition  the  General 
Court  to  incorporate  the  New  Grant  into  a  separate 
township. 

Town  votes  to  alternate  its  meetings  equally  be- 
tween the  old  and  the  new  grants. 

Brick  school  house  built  at  East  Medway. 

Universalist  services  held  in  the  new  Baptist 
church  until  1830. 

Mucksquit  ceded  to  Holliston  and  present  bound- 
ary established  between  the  two  towns. 

Job  Partridge  killed  by  being  thrown  from  a 
wagon. 

1825.  Seth  Harding  drowned  through   the  ice  on   Populatic 
Pond,  Jan.  28th. 

Medway's  vote  for  governor :  Levi  Lincoln,  125  ; 
all  others,  2. 

Mt.  Lebanon  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  insti- 
tuted in  Masonic  Hall,  West  Medway.  Addresses  by 
Rev.  Paul  Dean,  Grand  High  Priest,  and  Rev.  Jacob  Ide. 

Town  subscribes  $114.28  towards  Bunker  Hill 
monument. 

Joseph  L.  Richardson,  representative.  Also  1831. 

1826.  George  Barber  and  Alexander  Wright  visit   England. 

Stephen  Adams  started  Cabinet  making  in  West 
Medway  and  conducted  business  in  the  same  shop  for 
52  years. 


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1^26.     Warren  Lovering,  representative.    Also   '27-'29-'30-'31- 
'35-'46. 

Town  purchases  a  farm  for  its  poor  in  East  Med- 
way,  on  Farm  street. 

1827.  Captain   Joseph   Lovell,  a  soldier   of   the    Revolution, 
dies  Oct.  2nd,  aged  86. 

Voted  that  the  inmates  of  the  town  farm  use  no 
liquor  stronger  than  beer  or  cider,  except  those  who 
labor  hard  on  the  farm. 

1828.  Boot  business   first  started  in  West  Med  way  by  Wil- 
lard  Daniels. 

First  year  three  selectmen  are  chosen. 

Andrew  Jackson  receives  seven  votes  in  Medway. 

1829.  Sewell  Sanford   appointed   postmaster  at   Medway  by 
President  Jackson. 

This  year  English  hay  is  valued  at  $12.00  per  ton, 
Rye  straw  at  $4.00,  Oats  40c  per  bushel,  Pork  10c  per 
pound,  Cider  $1.25  per  barrel,  Butter  16c  per  pound, 
Sausages  10c  per  pound. 

1830.  Population  1756. 

Town  votes  that  "it  shall  be  dishonorable  to  treat 
or  be  treated  with  ardent  spirits  at  home  or  abroad." 

1831.  Joseph   L.  Richardson,  representative.      (Two   chosen 
this  year.) 

1832.  Cholera  cases  in  town. 

Rev.  Abijah  Baker  conducts  the  Medway  Classical 
Institute  at  the  Village  school  house. 

Paul  Daniel,  representative.     Also  '34  '39. 

1833.  Amos   Bullard  first   Medway  graduate   from  Amherst 
College. 

First  board  of  health  chosen. 

Rev.  William  Bo  wen  pastor  of  Baptist  church. 

Eight  cents  an  hour  voted  "to  a  good  man  on  the 
highway,  and  none  other." 

Paul  Daniel  chosen  representative  and  declined 
serving. 

1834.  "Rock  Bottom"  first  mentioned  in  town  records. 


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BIRTHPLACE   OF   "OLIVER   OPTIC." 

1834.  Third    post   office  established  in  town  at  West  Med- 
way.     Olney  Foristall,  postmaster. 

1835.  First   fire   engine   brought   into  town  by  the  Msdway 
Cotton.  Manufacturing  Company. 

George  II.  Hoibrook,  representative. 

1836.  Seventh   beil   for   Harvard   college  cast  at  Holbrook's 
bell  foundry. 

Honorable  Warren  Lovering  a  member  of  the  Gov- 
ernor's Council.  He  also  served,  in  this  position  in 
1837-38. 

First  meeting  to  agitate  for  a  steam  railroad  from 
Woonsocket  Falls  to  Boston  held  at  Squire  Metcalf's 
counting  house. 

Rev.  Aaron  Haynes  of  Middleton,  Vt.,  pastor  of 
Baptist  Church.  He  afterwards  was  the  originator  of 
Haynes'  Arabian  Balsam,  and  his  fame  was  national. 

1837.  George  Nourse  killed  by  a  runaway  horse,  Feb.  23d. 

Holbrook's  Organ  Manufactory  established  at 
East  Medway. 

Montgomery  Lodge,  Masons,  meet  at  Hathorn's 
tavern  until  1845. 


1837.  Eleazer  Daniels,  represent ttive. 

Rev.  Jacob  Ide  given  degree  of  D.  D.  by  Brown 
University. 

Rev.  Sevvell  Harding,  pastor  of  First  Church. 

Clark  Partridge  starts  boot  manufacturing  in  Med- 
way. 

1838.  Several  cases  of  small- pox  in  town. 

Luther  Metcalf,  Jr.,  representative. 

Village  church  and  society  organized  at  Medway, 
June  15. 

Rev.  David  Sanford  installed  pastor  over  Village 
Church. 

Village  church  built  and  dedicated. 

Fourth  post  office  established  in  town  at  Rockville. 
Deacon  Timothy  Walker,  postmaster. 

Turnpike  made  a  town  highway. 

Joseph  L.  Richardson  elected  a  state  senator. 

Stone  mill  built  on  Chicken  Brook  by  Cephas 
Thayer  of  West  Medway,  all  the  material  coming  from 
one  huge  boulder. 

1838.  Famous  "horse-shed"  fight  at  West  Medway.  Hot 
while  it  lasted. 

Major  Luther  Metcalf  died,  aged  82. 

1839.  Two  votes  cast  for  William  Lloyd  Garrison  for  Gov- 
ernor and  Wendell  Phillips  for  Lieutenant-Governor 
First  anti-slavery  votes  recorded  in  town. 

James  B.  Wilson's  mill  burned  at  Medway  and  re- 
built the  same  year. 

Governor  Briggs  appoints  Hon.  Warren  Lovering  a 
member  of  the  State  Board  of  Bank  Commissioners,  and 
he  served  for  six  years. 

1840.  Hon.  Warren  Lovering  visits  President  elect  William 
Henry  Harrison  at  his  home  at  North  Bend,  Ohio. 

A.  M.  B.  Fuller  starts  the  watch- making  business 
in  West  Medway  and  conducts  the  business  for  over 
50  years. 


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1840.  M.  M.  Fisher  and  David  Daniels  start  the  manufacture 
of  straw  bonnets  in  town. 

Population  2043. 

Sixteen  Liberty  party  votes  in  town. 

Jan.  7.  Deacon  Asa  Daniels,  a  Revolutionary  sol- 
dier, died,  aged  eighty-seven. 

Great  "Tippecanoe  and  Tyler  too"  parade  in  town 
with  log  cabins  and  hard  cider  galore. 

One  hundred  ninety-seven  men  in  town  liable  for 
military  duty. 

Comfort  Walker  died,  aged  75. 

1841.  Medway  License  Law  Association  formed. 

First  printed  town  report  gotten  out  by  Orion  Ma- 
son and  Joseph  Adams,  selectmen. 

Willard  Daniels,  representative. 

National  fast  on  the  death  of  President  Harrison, 
May  14. 

1842.  Joel  Hunt,  representative. 

Voted  to  hold  town  meetings  alternately  between 
the  three  villages. 

First  town  auditor  chosen. 

"Dry  Bridge"  across  the  turnpike  abolished  at  a 
cost  of  $25. 

Fifty- six  Liberty  party  votes  in  town. 

1843.  Sanford  J.  Horton,  first  Medway  graduate  from  Trini- 
ty College. 

First  town  meeting  held  at  the  Village. 

Year  of  the  Milleiite  excitement.  Several  West 
Medway  believers  prepared  their  robes  and  waited  for 
ascension. 

Horace  Richardson,  representative. 

1844.  Bridge   over   the  river  at  Medway  pronounced  unsafe 
for  travel. 

Cotton  mill  at  West  Medway  burned. 
Luther  Metcalf  elected  state  senator. 
Hiram  C.   Daniels,   first  Medway   graduate    from 
Dartmouth. 


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1845.  Rev.  Abner  Mason,  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church. 

Samuel  Force  and  Anson  White  last  tythingmen 
chosen  by  the  town. 

Rising  Sun  lodge,  LOO.  F.,  organized  at  Med- 
way  with  nine  charter  members. 

Serg.  Oliver  Richardson,  a  Revolutionary  soldier, 
died,  aged  91  years. 

1846.  Potash  Corner  Road  straightened. 

Straw  factory  built  at  Medway  by  Amos  Fisher, 
upper  story  used  as  a  hall  and  occupied  by  the  Odd 
Fellows. 

Stone  arch  bridge  over  river  built  at  Medway ;  it 
falls  down  when  partially  completed  and  was  rebuilt 
the  following  year. 

"Nigger  Board"  of  selectmen  elected,  all  Liberty 
Party  men. 

Collins  Hathorn  and  A.  S.  Harding  build  a  bowl- 
ing alley  at  Medway. 

May  9.  Rev.  Charles  D.  Torrey  died  in  State 
Prison  at  Maryland;  imprisoned  for  aiding  slaves  to  es- 
cape. 

Laban  Adams  starts  the  present  Adams  House  in 
Boston. 

1847.  Nathan  Jones  of  East  Medway,  County  Commissioner 
for  seven  years. 

Amos  Fisher  builds  Fisher's  block  and  double 
dwelling  house  at  Medway. 

Jedediah  Phillips,  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  dies, 
aged  92. 

First  dog  licenses  issued. 

184  8.     Horatio  Mason,  representative.     Also  '49. 
Goose  Island  road  laid  out. 

John  Quincy  Adams,  congressman  from  this  dis- 
trict, died. 

1849.     Rev.  Edward  C.  Messenger,  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church. 
New   schoolhouse   built  at  East  Medway,  now  the 
Adams  school  in  Millis. 


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1849.  Ladies'  Benevolent  society  organized  by  the  women 
of  the  Village  church. 

Two  Revolutionary  soldiers  died  this  year :  Lieu- 
tenant Jonathan  Adams,  aged  97,  and  Isaac  Hixon, 
aged  87. 

Fair  held  for  two  nights  in  Parish  House  at  West 
Medway  and  the  proceeds  devoted  to  improving  the 
Common. 

School  street  laid  out  in  Medway. 

Town  votes  a  high  school  to  be  kept  twelve  weeks 
in  each  village. 

Fourth  meeting  house  built  at  East  Medway  and 
the  old  building  removed  to  Rockville. 

Population  2778. 

Village  church  presented  with  a  tower  clock  by 
Pardon  D.  Tiffany  of  fet.  Louis. 

First  mass  said  in  Medway  by  Father  Callaher  at 
home  of  Walter  Dewire,  John  street,  Medway. 

Campbell  Bros,  build  paper  mill  at  West  Medway. 

1851.  Rev.  John  O.  Means,  pastor  of  First  Church. 

Present  High  School  building  built  by  District  No. 
7  at  a  cost  of  $7362.75. 

Clark  Partridge,  representative. 

1852.  Two  envelope  distributors  appointed  by  selectmen. 
(Query:  for  what  purpose?) 

Henry  E.  Walling,  C.  E.,  of  Boston,  publishes  a 
map  of  Medway. 

Present  Baptist  meeting  house  built  at  West  Med- 
way. 

Joel  Hunt,  a  prominent  manufacturer  of  West 
Medway,  died,  aged  70. 

Montgomery  Lodge  of  Masons  moves  to  Milford. 

Town  votes  $900.00  for  purchase  of  two  fire  en- 
gines. 

1853.  Oliver  Optic  publishes  his  first  book. 

July  14.  Thomas  Harding  died,  aged  93.  The 
last  Revolutionary  soldier  in  Medway. 

Medway  Branch  railroad,  the  first  to  enter   town, 


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opened  this  year.  Ran  from  North  Wrentham  toMed- 
way.     Terminal   and  depot  on  Walker  street,  Medway. 

Fisher's  Insurance  Agency  started. 

Dr.  Artemus  Brown,  delegate  to  the  Constitution- 
al Convention  in  Boston. 

1854.  West  Medway  Loan  Fund  Association  formed  ;  the 
forerunner  of  the  modern  Co-operative  Bank. 

Albert  Tnwing,  representative. 
Town  formally  protests  against  the  passage  of  the 
Kansas  and  Nebraska  Bill  by  Congress. 

1855.  Town  votes  to  enforce  prohibition  law,  and  not  less 
than  12,  nor  more  than  30  policemen  provided  for  that 
purpose. 

Ti^dile  C.  White,  representative.     Also  1856. 
Expense  of  Fire  Department  for  the  year,  $315.31. 
Legislature   grants   charter  for  the  so-called  Pette 
route  of  railroad  to  run  from  Needham  to  Woonsocket, 

n.  i. 

Old  yellow  mill,  built  by  Captain  Felt,  burned  at 
Medway. 

Old  Rapid  Engine  Co.  organized  at  West  Medway. 
First  fire  engine  owned  by  the  town. 

1856.  Value  of  taxable  property  in  town,  $1,268,888. 

Rev.  Jacob  Roberts,  pastor  of  First  Church. 

1857.  Methodist  church  organized  at  West  Medway;  Rev. 
Mr.  Jackson  first  pastor. 

State  divided  into  representative  districts.  Med- 
way in  12th  Norfolk. 

William  S.  Boyd,  representative. 

Town  votes  to  pay  engine  men  25c  an  hour  for 
actual  service  at  fires. 

William  G.  Harding,  first  Medway  graduate  from 
Williams  College. 

Union  Base  Ball  Club  organized,  May  3rd,  with 
thirty  members.  The  officers  were  Abram  Harding, 
president,  Milton  A.  Adams,  vice-president,  C.  E.  L.  B# 
Whitney,  secretary  and  treasurer. 


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1858.     William  H.  Temple,  representative. 

Union  Base  Ball  Club  wins  championship  of  the 
state  from  Massapoag  Club  of  Sharon. 

1859. .  Union  Ball  Club  plays  a  two  days'  game  of  2 LI  innings 
at  Ashland,  with  the  Excelsior  Club  of  Upton  on  July 
28th  and  29th,  winning  the  championship  and  a  purse 
of  1 1 00  00  by  a  score  of  100  to  78. 

Present  Methodist  church  built  on  Cottage   street. 

Milton  M.  Fisher  elected  State  Senator;  also  re- 
elected in  1860. 

Another  famous  game  of  Base  Ball  played  at 
Worcester,  Oct.  11th  and  12th,  between  the  Unions  of 
Med  way  and  the  Excelsiors  of  Upton. 

James  Coombs  commenced  business  in  West  Med- 
way  and  has  continued  in  the  same  store  for  54  years. 

Net  profit  to  town  from  the  liquor  agency,  $3.17 
for  the  year. 

1860.  Monument  to  Rev.  David  Sanford  dedicated  Oct.  2nd 
at  Evergreen  Cemetery,  West  Med  way;  Rev.  Jacob  Ide 
orator. 

Present  Grammar  school  building  erected  on  High 
street;  cost  $6,963.61. 

Population  3195. 

Town's  net  loss  by  liquor  agency,  $8.27  for  the 
year. 

On  April  16th,  Isaac  Foster  drops  dead  in  town 
meeting,  which  is  immediately  adjourned. 

First  campaign  flag  ever  floated  in  town  at  Med- 
way,  in  honor  of  Lincoln  and  Hamlin. 

Lincoln  electors  receive  329  votes  to  104  for  Dem- 
ocratic candidates. 

Dean  Librtry  incorporated  and  receives  a  gift 
from  Dr.  Oliver  Dean. 

William  N.  Cary,  Sr.,  representative.     Also  '61. 

1861.  Nov.  13.  First  train  enters  Medvvay  on  the  Air  Line 
Railroad.  (Now  N.  Y.,  N.  H.  &  H  )  Terminal  at 
Broad  street  for  some  months. 


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1861.  Milton  IT.  Sanford  presents  Village  church  with  organ. 

April  29.  First  town  meeting  in  support  of  war. 
Committee  of  nine  chosen  to  encourage  enlistments. 

May  11.  Fifty -four  Med  way  volunteers  enlist  in 
Co.  E,  Second  Mass.  Regiment. 

May  11.  Two  thousand  people  cheer  the  Med  way 
company  who  left  for  Camp  Andrew  on  the  old  branch 
railroad. 

Military  expenses,  $744.87. 

1862.  Five  thousand  two  hundred  seventy-seven  dollars 
thirty-seven  cents  paid  by  town  during  the  year  to 
families  of  volunteers. 

Jan.  1  to  June  1.     Thirty  additional  enlistments. 

Aug.  9.  George  H.  Ide  and  Herman  S.  Sparrow 
killed  at  Cedar  Mountains. 

Nov.  24.  Alexander  M.  Cushing  dies  in  hospital 
at  Sharpsburg,  \fd. 

Coin  goes  out  of  circulation,  postage  stamps  and 
scrip  used  instead. 

Frederick  S  war  man  loses  leg  by  a  cannon  ball  at 
Antietam,  Sept.  17. 

Three  soldiers  killed  at  Antietam  on  Sept.  17th  : 
Charles  E.  Cary,  Benjamin  F.  Remmickj  and  John  S. 
Treen. 

Robert  T.  Morse  dies  in  the  service. 

Town  votes,  Jan.  3rd,  to  keep  a  complete  record  of 
all  the  volunteers  in  the  Civil  War.  This  antedates 
action  by  the  state  by  over  a  year. 

Military  expense,  $11,120.15. 

Catholic  Society  organized  at  Medway  by  Rev. 
Patrick  Cuddihy  of  Milford.  Previous  to  this  time  all 
Medway  Catholics  worshipped  at  Milford. 

Rev.  Asa  Hixon  died,  aged  62. 

1863.  Hon.   M.   M.   Fisher    elected    County    Commissioner. 
Serves  for  nine  years. 

Air  Line  Railroad  completed  to  Woonsocket. 
Harding  and   Bassett  commence   manufacture  of 
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1863.  Charles  H.  Cumrnings  died  in  hospital  at  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  Jan.  19. 

First  draft  ordered  and  held  July  15th. 

Med  way  Catholic  Society  purchases  the  old  school 
house  on  Village  street. 

Newell  Barber  died  in  the  service  at  Baton  Rouge, 
La.,  Aug.  14th. 

David  F.  Covill,  a  soldier,  died  at  Bayou  Gentilly, 
La.,  April  22nd. 

William  Daniels,  representative.     Also  '64. 

John  Nolan  died  in  the  service  at  New  Orleans, 
La.,  Aug.  7th. 

May  3.  Albert  C.  Houghton  killed  at  Chancellors- 
ville. 

May  3.  Peter  Mawn  loses  a  leg  at  Battle  of 
Chancellorsville. 

1864.  On  June  11,  thirty- two  members  of  the  2nd  Mass. 
Regiment  return  to  Med  way,  after  three  years'  hard 
service,  and  are  welcomed  at  the  Air  Line  Depot  by  a 
large  assemblage  with  a  band  of  music. 

David  A.  Clark  taken  prisoner  at  Opequan,  Sept. 
19 ;  confined  in  Libby  and  Belle  Isle. 

George  A.  Fuller  died  in  Andersonville  Prison  in 
August. 

George  M.  Hardy  killed  at  the  Battle  of  the  Wil- 
derness. 

Edwin  A.  Grant  died,  Sept  11th,  at  Alexandria,  Va. 

Henry  R.  Dain  died  at  Berryville,  Va ,  hospital. 

George  H.  Allen  died,  Aug.  11th,  in  Andersonville 
Prison. 

Med  way  Branch  R.  R,  discontinued  after  11  years' 
service. 

Henry  E.  Mason,  postmaster  at  Med  way. 

George  W.  Mahr,  a  prisoner  at  Andersonville  until 
April,  1865. 

James  McGowan  died  of  yellow  fever  at  Beaufort, 
S.  C. 

George  V.  Partridge  died  .of  wounds  at  Beaufort, 
S.  C. 


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1864.  Albert  W.  Barton  captured  by  the  Confederates  at 
Battle  of  Cold  Harbor  and  confined  at  Anderson ville 
for  ten  months. 

Lieut.  William  C.  Hawes  killed  at  Alexandria,  Va., 
May  29th. 

Local  mill  men  pay  $1.37  per  pound  for  raw  cotton 
on  Nov.  22nd. 

Dr.  Jacob  Ide  celebrated  the  50th  anniversary  of 
his  installation  as  pastor  over  the  Second  Church. 

1865.  Patrick  Gallagher  died  at  camp  near  Richmond,  Va., 
May  24th. 

Charles  G.  Kingsbury  died  May  29th  at  hospital 
in  Washington,  D.  C. 

Oakland  Cemetery  dedicated  at  Medvvay. 

Medway  furnished  377  men  and  spent  $35,000  as  a 
town  in  prosecuting  the  War  of  the  Rebellion. 

Fifty -two  soldiers  died  away  from  home  out  of  a 
population  of  3600. 

Mrs.  Mary  Darling  died,  at  103  years  of  age,  and 
was  the  first  person  buried  in  Oakland  Cemetery. 

Gilbert  McCallum,  a  prisoner  at  Andersonville,  for 
a  year,  died  at  Washington  after  being  exchanged. 

Expense  of  Fire  Department  for  the  year,  $181.39. 

St.  Clement's  P.  E.  church  organized  at  East  Med- 
way.    Rev.  B.  F.  Cooley,  Rector. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Jacob  Ide  celebrate  their  golden  wed- 
ding, April  14. 

Albert  D.  Richardson  publishes  "Field,  Dungeon 
and  Escape." 

Joseph  A.  Clifford  detailed  to  guard  the  body  of 
Abraham  Lincoln  before  the  funeral  services. 

Orion  Mason  died,  aged  66. 

1866.  George  P.  Metcalf  builds  large  straw  factory  in  Med- 
way. 

Anson  Daniels,  representative. 

1867.  Streets  in  town  officially  named  and  entered  on  town 
records. 

Leander  S.  Daniels,  representative. 


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1867.  Big   freshet  on  Charles   River;    upper  dam   at  white 
mill  swept  away  and  flat  inundated. 

1868.  Med  way  Cornet  Band  organized   by  George  H.  Barton, 
who  was  first  leader. 

Town  Clerk's  office  burned  and  some  records  and 
the  town  library  destroyed.  Many  valuable  papers 
and  the  original  books  of  records  saved  in  the  safe. 

Clark  Partridge,  state  senator. 

Alfred  Daniels,  a  prominent  manufacturer,  died, 
aged  65  years. 

Town  votes  at  its  April  meeting  to  erect  a  soldiers' 
monument.     (But  never  did  so.) 

A  written  transcript  made  of  the  first  book  of  town 
records. 

On  May  1 8th  the  first  record  of  a  No  License  vote 
in  Medway. 
1869.     Fifty-one  new  buildings  in  town  this  year. 

Dr.  James  H.  Sargent,  a  veteran  surgeon  of  the 
Regular  Army,  under  Scott,  died  at  the  age  of  88. 

James  H.  Ellis,  representative. 

Three  divisions  of  Sons  of  Temperance  and  two 
lodges  of  Good  Templars  in  town  with  a  membership 
of  over  three  hundred. 

Two  lodges  of  Knights  of  St.  Crispin  in  town. 

Wilder  Dwight  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  organized;  David 
A.  Partridge,  first  Commander. 

Albert  D.  Richardson  assassinated  by  Daniel  Mc- 
Farland  in  office  of  New  York  Tribune. 

Rapid  Engine  Company's  house  built  on  Peach 
street.     Cost  met  by  town  and  subscriptions. 

Awl  and  needle  shop  built  at  West  Medway. 
John   W.    Hodges  and   brother  start   the  canning 
industry  in  Medway. 

1870.  Catholic  society  detached  from  Milford  and  annexed  to 
Holliston;  Rev.  Father  Quinlan  pastor. 

Ninety-three  births,  82  marriages,  52  deaths. 

Eight  new  streets  laid  out  on  old  Hunt  farm  in 
West  Medway,  on  old  training  field,  by  W.  L.  C.  Hunt. 


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1870.     Fifty  four  buildings  enlarged  and   erected   this  year. 

Town   owns   one   cannon    this   year.       (Query: — 
Where  did  it  go?) 

Two  new  fire  engines  bought:    The  "Tori en t"  and 
the  "Rapid."     Cost  $2780.00. 

Rev.  Seth  J.  Axtell,  pastor  of  Baptist  church. 

The  old  "Convent"  straw  shop  burned. 

Charles  River  Lodge  of  Masons  organized  at  West 
Medway. 

Vital   statistics   printed   for  the  first  time   in   the 
town  records. 
1871.     Rev.  E.  O.  Jameson,  pastor  of  First  church. 

Medway  Savings  Bank  incorporated  :     M.  M.  Fish- 
er, President ;  Orion  A.  Mason,  Treasurer. 

Thomas  Campbell  died,  aged  62. 

Milton  H.  and  Edward  S.  Sanford   give  $7500  and 
citizens  subscribe  $8315  towards  building  a  public  hall. 


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1871.  Dr.  Oliver  Dean   died  in    Franklin,  leaving  a  bequest 
of  25  shares  of  B.  &  A.  R.  R.  stock  to  Dean  Library. 

Three  members  of  School  Committee  die  in  office 
this  year  :  John  S.  Walker,  Marcellus  Woodward  and 
Lyman  Adams,  Jr. 

David  A.  Partridge  elected  moderator  of  the  annual 
town  meeting  for  the  first  time.  He  afterward  served 
over  60  times  in  this  capacity. 

1872.  Rev  Edwin  A.  Adams  sent  as  missionary  to  Austria. 

Henry  A.  Bullard  publishes  the  "Medway  Journal 
at  West  Med  way." 

Rev.  Alexis  W.  Ide,  representative. 

'•Big  Shop"  built  at  West  Medway  for  Fogg, 
Houghton  and  Coolidge. 

Thirteen  boot  shops  in  operation  in  town. 

From  1852  to  1872,  one  hundred  and  fifteen  build- 
ings  erected  on  the  Joel  Hunt  farm  in  West  Medway. 


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1872.  Small-pox  in  town,  brought  by  a  tramp.       Six  deaths. 
Cost  to  town,  $1854.05. 

Rev.  Rufus  K.  Harlow  of  Middleboro  installed  as 
pastor  of  Village  church.  Rev.  David  Sanford,  Pastor 
Emeritus. 

Sanford  Hall  dedicated  Dec.  31st.  Dr.  Theodore 
Fisher  delivered  historical  address. 

1873.  March  meeting  held  in  Sanford  Hall  for  the  first  time. 

"Milford  Journal"  publishes  the  first  Medway 
edition. 

Oct.  30th.  First  "Old  Folks  Concert"  held  in  Med- 
way. 

In  July,  5040  cases  of  boots  and  shoes  shipped 
from  West  Medway  station. 

Interior  of  Village  Church  remodelled. 

Rev.  A.  W.  Segar,  pastor  of  Second  Church. 

Franklin  Journal  purchases  the  Medway  Journal 
and  publ  ishes  a  Medway  edition. 

Medway  Lodge,  No.  163,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  organized. 

Division  No.  7,  A.  O.  H.,  organized  at  Medway. 

1 874.  Willard  Daniels,  pioneer  boot  manufacturer,  died  ;  aged 
70. 

Rev.  Alexis  W.  Ide,  chaplain  of  State  Senate. 

Charles  B.  Whitney,  prominent  boot  manufacturer, 
died. 

Town  opposes  the  taking  of  Charles  River  by  the 
City  of  Boston  as  a  source  of  water  supply. 

Christ  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  built  at  Med- 
way. 

1875.  Sunday  Newspapers  first  sold  in  Medway. 

Deacon  Paul  Daniel  died  at  East  Medway,  aged  86. 

Captain  Warren  Doliff,  an  old  sea  captain  and  Cal- 
ifornia miner,  starts  gold  excitement  by  prospecting  on 
Pauls  Hill,  Medway. 

Home  National  Bank  of  Milford  starts  operations 
and  draws  many  depositors  from  Medway. 

Rev.  David  Sanford  dies,  Oct.  17,  aged  74. 

Forty-one  new  buildings  this  year. 


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1875.  Whitney  boot  factory  on  Broad  street  burned. 

William  Parsons  killed  by  a  runaway  horse,  Feb. 
13th. 

Population  4242.     High  water  mark. 

Col.  George  H.  Holbrook  died,  aged  77. 

Artemus  Richardson  died,  aged  95  years  and  6 
months. 

Ninetieth  birthday  of  Dr.  Jacob  Ide  celebrated  at 
Second  Church,  March  29th. 

Dean  Walker  died,  aged  82. 

High  school  building  enlarged. 

1876.  St.  Joseph's  Church  started  and  partially  completed. 

David  A.  Partridge,  representative. 

Partridge  Hall  built  in  East  Medway. 

East  Medway  Dramatic  Club  nourished  about  this 
time.  "Solon  Shingle,"  "Uncle  Tom's  Cabin,"  "The 
Octoroon"  and  other  high  class  dramas  given  by  them. 

Catholic  Total  Abstinence  Society  formed. 

Norfolk  Tannery  burned  at  Medway.  Loss 
$20,000. 

Warren  Lovering,  Esq.,  aged  80,  a  former  state 
senator  and  member  of  the  governor's  council,  died  in 
East  Medway  almshouse. 


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1876.  Rev.  James  M.  Bell,  pastor  of  Second  Church. 

St.  Joseph's  Cemetery  consecrated  on  Oakland 
street,  Med  way. 

Eddie  B.  Robinson  drowned  in  Populatic  Pond, 
Dec.  31. 

On  Jan.  3rd,  Patrick  Costello  plowed  over  an  acre 
of  land  on  Bent  street,  Med  way. 

Mrs.  Edna  Holbrook  Sanford  died,  aged  90. 

Olney  Corey  died,  aged  70. 

Quinobequin  Hotel  partially  burned  July  5th. 

Calvin  Follansbee  burned  to  death  in  his  barn  at 
East  Medway. 

Captain  George  Paul  died,  aged  70. 

May  31.     Firemen's  muster  at  East  Medway. 

1877.  Rockville  Chapel  built  and  dedicated.  N.  B.  The 
services  made  a  slicking  impression  on  those  present, 
as  the  varnish  on  the  seats  was  extremely  new. 

First  service  held  in  St.  Joseph's  Church. 

Norfolk  Lodge,  Knights  of  Honor,  instituted  May 
31st. 

Eureka  Council,  No.  5,  Royal  Arcanum,  organized 
July  11. 

Rapid  Engine  Co.  disbands  and  keeps  up  an  inde- 
pendent organization  for  one  year. 

1878.  Elijah  B.  Daniels,  representative. 

Rev.  R.  K.  Harjow  spends  five  month  in  Europe. 

Rev.  John  E.  Burr,  pastor  of  Baptist  Church. 

George  W.  Ray  died,  aged  71. 

Zenas  Brigham  died,  aged  92. 

''Aunt  Thusa  Ellis"  died,  aged  95. 

Seventeen  persons  die  this  year,  seventy  years  of 
age  and  upwards. 

Druggists'  licenses  granted  this  year  in  town  for 
the  first  time. 

1879.  Milk  wholesales  for  15c  an  8  qt.  can. 

Rev.  Caleb  Kimball,  the  blind  preacher,  died,  aged 
81.   He  was  blind  for  50  years. 


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1879.  Hon.  Luther  Metcalf  died,  aged  91. 

Eaton  &  Wilson's  upper  mill  burned.  Bernard 
Hart,  first  assistant  engineer  of  Rapid  Engine  Company, 
killed  at  mill  tire. 

Captain  David  Daniels  married  for  the  second  time 
at  80  years  of  age. 

Otis  Metcalf  died,  aged  94. 

78  births,  27  mairiages,  87  deaths. 

Dr.  Alexander  LeB.  Monroe  died,  aged  71. 

Canners  of  vegetables  hit  hard  by  "swell  heads." 
One  packer  lost  over  200,000  cans  of  corn. 

Town  Auditor  Frederick  L.  Fisher  has  accident 
that  causes  amputation  of  leg. 

1880.  George   E.    Partridge   of   East   Medway   murdered  at 
North  Bellingham. 

A  Garfield  and  Arthur  Torchlight  Battalion  organ- 
ized in  each  of  the  three  villages. 

Hon.  Joseph  Lovell  Richardson  died  at  East  Med- 
way, aged  93. 

Water  mains  laid  from  Eaton  &  Wilson's  mills 
along  Village  street  to  grounds  of  the  Village  Church, 
for  fire  protection,  by  generosity  of  Milton  H.  Sanford. 

Rev.  Jacob  Ide,  D.  D.,  died,  aged  94. 

Mrs.  Mary  Emmons  Ide  died,  aged  89. 

Marcus  Richardson,  of  Bangor,  Me.,  spends  his 
100th  biithday  with  his  brother,  Deacon  Silas  Richard- 
son, of  East  Medway,  aged  90. 

Joseph  Warren  Thompson,  representative. 

Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Veteran  Association  succeeds 
Wilder  Dwight  post,  G.  A.  R.,  at  West  Medway. 

1881.  First  graduation  from  Medway  High  School. 

Abraham  Charak  becomes  the  first  Hebrew  resi- 
dent of  Medway,  living  on  Ellis  street,  having  fled  from 
persecution  in  Russia. 

Sept.  8th.     Famous  Yellow  Day. 

70th  birthday  of  Hon.  M.  M.  Fisher  celebrated  in 
Sanford  Hall. 

Old  White  mill  demolished. 


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1881.  Sixty    thousand   dollars   subscribed   to  build   Sanford 
Mills  on  site  of  Old  White  Mill. 

April  4th.  Town  votes  to  compile  and  publish  a 
History  of  Med  way. 

First  service  ever  held  in  Christ  Church  on  Christ- 
mas Day. 

Marcus  Richardson  of  Bangor,  Maine,  a  native  of 
East  Medway,  and  a  member  of  Montgomery  Lodge  of 
Masons,  in  1803,  died,  aged  100  years. 

Memorial  services  for  President  Garfield  held  in 
Sanford  Hall,  Sept  26. 

Miss  Mary  A.  Jenckes,  first  Medway  graduate  from 
Wellesley  College. 

Eighteen  persons  over  80  years  of  age  died  this 
year  ;  thirty  persons  over  70. 

Mrs.  Olive  Adams  died;  aged  98  years,  7  months. 

1882.  School   Committee   censured   by    town   in   respect   to 
High  School  matters. 

Two  selectmen  die  in  office  within  six  months  » 
William  Everett,  Oct.  31st,  1882,  and  George  B.  Thrash- 
er, March  5th,  1883. 

Benjamin  F.  Butler  carries  Medway  for  Governor 
by  49  votes. 

Rev.  Henry  Ward  Beecher  lectures  in  Sanford 
Hall. 

Curfew  rung  at  9  o'clock  at  Sanford  Mills  from 
this  date. 

Medway  Lodge  No.  42,  A.  O.  U.  W.,  organized. 

Sanford  Mills  completed  and  leased  to  Samuel 
Hodgson  of  Wales,  Mass. 

Abram  S.  Harding,  a  prominent  straw  manufac- 
turer, dies,  aged  64. 

Cephas  Thayer  died  April  16th,  aged  93. 

James  H.  Sargent  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  organized. 

Deputy  Sheriff  Valentine  Coombs  died,  aged  81. 

1883.  Sewell  J.  Clark,  representative. 

Worst  railroad  accident  ever  known  in  town.  In 
July,  the  first  morning  train  leaves  track  below  "New 


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City"  and  rolls  down  embankment,  and  fourteen  per- 
sons are  more  or  less  injured. 

East  Med  way  Grange,  No.  112,  P.  of  H.,  organized. 

Milton  H.  San  ford  died,  aged  70.  He  was  Med- 
way's  most  generous  benefactor. 

Edward  Eaton,  manufacturer,  died,  aged  60. 

Town  received  a  gift  of  $800  from  an  anonymous 
donor,  whose  identity  has  never  been  revealed.  It  has 
popularly  been  supposed  to  be  conscience  money. 

1884.  Charles  P.  Spencer,  first  Medway  graduate  from  Tufts 
College. 

Miss  Katherine  S.  Jameson,  first  Medway  graduate 
from  Smith  College. 

E.  S.  Fuller  and  234  other  voters  petition  the  Gen- 
eral Court  for  the  separation  of  East  Medway  and  its 
incorporation  into  a  separate  township. 

Registrars  of  voters  appointed  in  town  for  the  first 
time. 

Four  liquor  licenses  granted. 

Deacon  Anson  Daniels,  a  portrait  painter  of  more 
than  local  reputation,  died,  aged  71. 

Rockville  Mills  burn. 

M.  M.  Pusher  and  256  others  petition  the  General 
Court  that  if  the  town  of  Medway  be  divided  at  all,  it 
be  made  into  three  distinct  townships. 

Publication  of  the  West  Medway  Gazette  commenced 
by  G.  M.  Billings  in  connection  with  the  Gazette  at 
Milford.  Elmer  E.  Hoi  brook  was  the  local  manager  up 
to  the  time  of  his  last  illness  in  1905,  and  almost  from 
the  beginning  the  Medway  Village  column  has  been 
and  still  is  in  charge  of  Orion  T.  Mason. 

1885.  Most  of  the  Old  Grant,  or  East  Medway,  set  apart 
by  the  legislature  and  incorporated  into  the  t-j\vn  of 
Millis.  Its  territory  extending  as  far  west  as  a  line 
drawn  on  Farm  street,  and  named  "Millis"  in  honor  of 
Lansing  Millis,  a  wealthy  resident. 

Division  of  town  property  gives  Millis  the  alms- 
house, the  engine  house,  and  three  school  houses,  the 


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new  town  p.iying  $4500  towards   the   town    indebted- 
ness. 

Ten  persons  over  80  die  this  year. 

At  first  town  meeting  in  Millis,  65  no  license  votes; 
none  for  license. 

Henry  L.  Millis,  representative   to  General  Court 
from  Millis. 

Miles  Gormley,  the  oldest  man  that  ever  lived  in 
Medway,  died,  at  the  age  of  105  years. 

St.  Joseph's  Society  made   into  a  separate   parish. 
Rev.  Matthew  T.  Boylan,  first  pastor. 

Louis  LaCroix,  first  town  clerk  of  Millis,  a  position 
he  still  adorns. 

Population  of  Medway,  2777 ;  Millis,  683. 

On  Feb.  26th,  a  grand  celebration  of  the  incorpora- 
tion of  the  town  of  Millis  held  in  the  old  First  Church. 

Captain  Clark  Partridge  died,  aged  82. 

Joseph  L.  Richardson  died,  aged  89. 

Lansing  Millis  died  April  6th,  aged  61. 

Depot  boot  factory  built  at  Medway  Village,  by 
citizens,  for  Seavey  Bros. 

Mrs.  Pamelia  Thompson  died,  aged  89. 

Smallpox  scare  in  town. 

First   board  of  Millis   selectmen :    Lansing  Millis, 
John  S.  Folsom,  Willard  P.  Clark. 
1886.     New   stone  railway  station  built  at  Millis,  with  town 
offices  in  upper  story,  the  gift  of  the  heirs  of  Lansing 
Millis. 

First  Cattle  Show  and  Fair  of  East  Medway 
Grange. 

Law  and  Order  League  formed  in  town. 

Messrs.  Hirsh  &  Park  of  New  York  City  buy  the 
Harding  Straw  Factory,  aDd  commence  the  manufac- 
ture of  straw  and  felt  hats. 

Medway  Town  History  published ;  Rev.  E.  O. 
Jameson,  Editor. 

Third  Congregational  Church  organized  at  West 
Medway  by  ex-communicated  and  disaffected  members 
of  the  Second  Church. 


MILLIS   MEMORIAL   DEPOT. 


1886.  The  Austin  Farm  on  Village  street  bought  for  an 
almshouse. 

Freshet  on  Charles  River,  Feb.  11th;  boats  used  on 
streets  on  the  "Flats." 

1887.  Wellington  L.  C.  Hunt  died,  aged  72.  A  most  active 
and  stirring  son  of  old  Med  way ;  from  1869  to  1874  he 
built,  directly  or  indirectly,  over  100  buildings  in  West 
Med  way. 

Rev.  James  Conery,  the  first  Medway  boy  ordained 
to  the  priesthood. 

1888.  Charles  W.  Seavey,  representative. 

Semi-centennial  anniversary  of  the  Village  Church, 
held  Sept.  7th. 

Chase,  Merritt  &  Co.  remove  their  boot  business 
from  Milford  to  the  Seavey  shop  at  Medway. 

Rev.  Thomas  B.  Lowney,  pastor  of  St.  Joseph's 
Catholic  Church. 

Mrs.  Sally  D.  Ware  celebrates  her  100th  birthday 
at  her  home  on  Village  street. 

Prohibition  party  vote  50 ;  high  water  mark  in 
Medway. 

Town  Treasurer  Orion  A.  Mason  died  April  6th, 
aged  63  years  and  1  day. 


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1888.     Granville   McCallom  died,    aged    82.     At   his   request 
he  was  given  a  Masonic  funeral  with  a  band  of   music. 

Old  Holbrook  bell  foundry,  the  oldest  in  the  state, 
torn  down  at  Millis. 

In    August,  1733   cases   of   boots  and   shoes    were 
shipped  from  the  Medway  station. 

Dr.  E.  A.  Daniels   and  family  go  to  Europe  and 
spend  two  years  in  Vienna. 

On  Christmas  Day  thermometer  registers  61  above. 
1889.     No  ice  cut  in  town  this  winter  until  March. 

First   Church  in  Millis  celebrates   its  175th  birth- 
day. 

Joseph  Bullard  died,  aged  72. 

Addison  T.  Thayer  died,  aged  75. 

William  Wallace  drowned  in  Charles  River. 

George  Newell  died,  aged  86. 

Mrs.  Sally  D.  Ware  died,  aged  100  years,  6  months. 

Fifteen  persons  died  in  town  this  year,  over  70 
years  of  age. 

Mechanics  Hall  Block  in  West  Medway  burned. 

St.  Joseph's  Church  clears  over  $4000  on  a  two 
weeks'  fair. 

St.  Joseph's  Cemetery  consecrated  by  Archbishop 
Williams. 

Town  of  Millis  elects  Park  Commissioner  and  ap- 
propriates $10,000  for  the  Steel  Edge  Works  Park. 

Steel  Edge  Manufacturing  Compuny  removes  its 
business  from  Chelsea  to  Millis  and  erects  large  build- 
ings of  stone  at  East  Millis. 

Deacon  Silas  Richardson  died  in  Millis,  aged  96 
years,  11  months,  12  days. 

East  Millis  built  up  by  Henry  L.  Millis  and  others, 
and  many  new  streets  laid  out. 
1890.     Ninety  Medway  citizens  visit  Congers,  N.  Y.,    on  an 
excursion  gotten  up  by  John  McGinnis. 

Moses  C.  Adams  of  Millis,  representative  to  Gen- 
eral Court. 

Thorne  Bros,  of  Vermont  City,  S.  D.,  move  to  Millis. 


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1890.  Town  of  Millis  starts  Water  Works  in  a  small  way. 

Medway  votes  not  to  consider  a  system  of  Water 
Works. 

Jan.  29th.  Timothy  Mawn,  aged  7,  drowned  in 
Charles  River. 

New  bells  from  the  McShane  Foundry,  Baltimore, 
hung  in  the  towers  of  Village  and  St.  Joseph's 
Churches. 

Rev.  John  C.  Smith  died  in  West  Medway,  aged  63. 

P.  A.  Woodward,  J.  S.  Pearson  and  E.  S.  Thomp- 
son visit  Europe. 

Rufus  G.  Fairbanks,  Esq.,  appointed  Trial  Justice. 

Deacon  John  Smith,  a  pioneer  boot  manufacturer 
of  West  Medway,  died,  aged  81. 

Public  reception  tendered  John  McGinnis,  the 
founder  of  Congers,  N.  Y.,  in  Sanford  Hall. 

Mrs.  Tamar  W.  Mason,  the  oldest  member  of  the 
Village  Church,  died,  aged  93. 

First  flag  raised  over  schoolhouse. 

Tower  built  on  St.  Joseph's  Church. 

Daniel  S.  Woodman,  representative. 

1891.  First  concrete  sidewalks  laid  in  town. 

School  District  formed  with  Millis  and  Holliston, 
and  Superintendent  Fred  C.  Tenney  employed. 

Second  and  Third  Congregational  Churches  unite 
at  West  Medway. 

Bald-headed  American  Eagle  caught  in  a  muskrat 
trap  at  Rockville. 

Three  selectmen  elected  this  year  from  West  Med- 
way. 

J.  W.  Thompson  &  Co.  remove  their  Shoe  Manu- 
facturing business  from  Medway  to  a  modern,  one-story 
factory  built  for  them  in  East  Millis. 

Famous  Pratt  tar  and  feather  case  this  year. 

Firemen's  pay  raised  from  $7.00  to  $15.00  yearly. 

"Quinobequin"  Hotel  changed  to  "The  Gladstone." 

S.  G.  Clark's  box  mills  burned. 

Free  Public  Library  started  at  West  Medway. 


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1891.  Horatio  Kingsbury  farm  at  River  End  sold  this  year; 
the  first  deed  given  since  1781.  For  112  years,  it  had 
been  in  the  possession  of  one  family. 

1892.  Principal  E.  D.  Daniels,  of  the  Medway  High  School 
spends  the  summer  in  Europe. 

Medway  Water  Company  chartered  by  the  state : 
E.  V.  Mitchell,  president;  F.  L.  Fisher,  clerk. 

Millis  Savings  Bank  incorporated :  Henry  L.  Millis, 
president ;  O  T.  Dean,  treasurer. 

The  Millis  News  published  weekly. 

Richard  J.  Reardon  loses  an  arm  in  a  railroad  acci- 
dent. 

Timothy  Tde  and  wife,  of  West  Medway,  celebrate 
their  golden  wedding. 

Australian  Ballot  system  used  in  Medway  for  the 
the  first  time. 

Free  Public  Library  opened  in  West  Medway, 
June  18th,  with  a  nucleus  of  567  books,  through  the 
efforts  of  Elmer  E.  Holbrook. 

New  school  building  built  at  Medway  for  the  lower 
grades. 

Steam  heat  and  ventilating  stacks  put  in  both 
Medway  school  buildings. 

1893.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Asa  Williams  celebrate  their  57th  mar- 
riage anniversary. 

Clarke  P.  Harding,  representative.     Also  '94. 

St.  Anthony  court,  M.  C.  O.  F.,  organized  at  Med- 
way. • 

Dog  Tax  money  given  to  Free  Public  Library. 
Previous  to  this  given  to  schools. 

James  A.  Snow  appointed  postmaster  at  Medway. 

Medway  Savings  Bank  removes  to  its  present 
quarters  in  Sanford  Hall  Block. 

Aug.  17.  Safes  in  Medway  Savings  Bank  blown 
by  burgiars.     No  loss. 

1894.  Famous  hot  day,  107  in  the  shade. 

Famous  Noyes  Harding  campaign  for  selectman. 
Henry  L.  Millis  leaves  Millis. 


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1894.  W.  W.  Clough  starts  the  Norfolk  County  Poultry 
Show  at  Medway. 

First  annual  ball  of  Hirsh  &  Park's  employes  in 
Sanford  Hall. 

William  Page,  a  local  bridge  builder  of  note,  dies, 
aged  95. 

Muster  of  fire  engiae  companies  at  Medway. 

1896.     Asa  Robinson  drowns  at  Lilly  Pond. 

St.  Brendan's  Church  in  North  Bellingham  built 
by  efforts  of  Rev.  Thomas  B.  Lowney. 

John  W.  Hodges,  while  piotecting  his  property, 
shoots  Richard  Howley,  a  burglar,  July  6th. 

Rising  Sun  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  celebrates  its  50th 
anniversary. 

Moses  Richardson  of  Millis  died,  aged  76. 

Millis  Savings  Bank  closes  up  its  affairs  and  ceases 
business. 

First  Medway  patient  operated  on  for  appendicitis. 

Cole,  Senior  &  Co.  operate  Sanford  Mills. 

John  L.  Capion  drowned  in  Charles  River,    Feb.  6. 

Soldiers'  Monument  erected  and  dedicated  in  Ever- 
green cemetery  by  James  H.  Sargent  Post,  G.  A.  R. 

Rev.  T.  B.  Lowney  is  transferred  to  Marlboro  from 
St.  Joseph's  Church  and  is  given  a  purse  of  $500  by  his 
parishioners  at  a  reception. 

Rev.  Daniel  J.  Kelliher,  Ph.  D  ,  of  Brighton  Semi- 
nary, Brighton,  Pastor  of  St.  Joseph's  Charch. 

*     Alvin  Wight  of  West  Medway,  died,  aged  86.     He 
owned  the  first  piano  in  town. 

Clarke  P.  Harding,  state  senator. 

Medway  post  office  made  a  presidential  office. 

James  H.  Sargent  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  has  72  members. 
High  water  mark.     Daniel  W.  Newell  is  commander. 

Thirty-two  births,  '28  marriages,  58  deaths. 

Louis  A.  Cary,  Deputy  United  States  Consul  at 
Capetown,  South  Africa. 

Feb.  17.  Coldest  day  since  the  weather  bureau 
started;  19  degrees  below  zero  at  Medway. 


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1897.  Milford  and  Med  way  stage  route  abolished  by  the  Post 
Office  Department. 

Clarke  P.  Harding,  state  senator.  Daniel  S.  Wood- 
man, representative. 

Mrs.  Sarah  Phipps  Metcalf  died,  aged  93. 

Med  way  Club  organized ;  Daniel  W.  Senior,  presi- 
dent. 

Village  Church  and  society  celebrate  the  25th  an- 
niversary of  Rev.  R.  K.  Harlow's  pastorate. 

Leander  8.  Daniels  died,  aged  63. 

Montgomery  Lodge,  Masons,  celebrates  its  100th 
anniversary  at  the  old  Doctor  Miller  homestead  at  River 
End,  in  the  same  room  in  which  it  was  organized. 

First  electric  car  from  Milford  entered  town,  Sep- 
tember 27. 

Mrs.  Martha  W.  Kimball,  a  daughter  of  a  Revolu- 
tionary soldier,  made  a  member  of  Newton  Chapter,  D. 
A.  R.,  Nov.  12,  and  given  a  gold  spoon. 

First  cucumber  hot  house  in  town  built  on  the 
Bullard  Farm  at  West  Med  way. 

Dean  Library  made  a  free  public  library. 

First  electric  car  from  Milford  enters  Medway  Vil- 
lage, Nov.  25th. 

1898.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Emerson  N.  Bullard   celebrate  their  gol- 
den wedding. 

Mrs.  Charlotte  Pond  of  West  Medway,  an  original 
daughter  of  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  died,  aged  84. 

Deacon  Wales  Kimball  died,  aged  89. 

In  February  the  heaviest  snowstorm  since  1867. 

Joseph  Maynard  killed  by  railroad  at  Millis. 

Twelve  Medway  men  sign  for  enlistment  in  Co.  M 
for  service  in  the  Spanish-American  war. 

On  July  1st,  the  N.  Y ,  N.  H.  &  H.  R.  R.  takes 
possession  of  the  old  N.  E.  railroad. 

Varnum  Warren  died,  aged  82. 

Rev.  Guy  W.  Miner  of  Topeka,  Kansas,  appointed 
Rector  of  Christ  Church. 

The  old  Metcalf  homestead   at   Medway,  built  in 


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1792,  passes  from  possession  of  the  Metcalf  family  and 
is  turned  into  a  boarding  house. 

Lillie  O'Hara  drowned  in  Charles  River. 

Elnathan  S.  Winslow  died,  aged  96. 

Electric  lights  first  installed  in  Medway  streets. 

Mrs.  Martha  M   Kimball  died,  aged  95. 

Rev.  Patrick  Cuddihy  died,  aged  89,  at  Milford. 

Henry  E.  Mason,  for  more  that  29  years  postmas- 
ter of  Medway,  died,  aged  65. 

Peter  J.  Foley  ordained  priest. 

New  almshouse  built  on  Lovering  street. 

1899.  Hotel  Gladstone  burned  to  the  ground,  March  17th. 
Peter  J.  Dowd,  a  fireman,  killed  while  on  duty  at  the 
fire. 

Medway  Savings  Bank  broken  into  March  21st. 
Safes  blown  with  nitio-glycerine. 

March  22  E.  Cutler  Wilson  and  expert  injured  by 
second  explosion,  while  opening  safes  in  bank. 

Quinobequin  Chapter,  Eastern  Star,  organized  at 
West  Medway. 

Famous  McGinniss  liquor  license  contest  started, 
that  kept  litigation  in  operation  for  two  years. 

Mrs.  Amelia  Thayer  died,  aged  88. 

Jewish  Synagogue  built  at  North  Medway. 

William  A.  Jenckes  died,  aged  83. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sewell  Smith  celebrate  60th  anniver- 
sary of  their  marriage. 

Rev.  R.  K.  Harlow  resigns  pastorate  of  Village 
Church  on  account  of  ill  health,  and  spends  the  winter 
in  California. 

Croswell  Hall  built  adjoining  Christ  Church,  Med- 
way. Its  corner  stone  laid  by  the  Grand  Lodge,  Ma- 
sons, of  Massachusetts,  April  25th. 

1900.  First  Arbor  day  observance  by  schools. 

Hon.  Clarke  P.  Harding  appointed  Postmaster  at 
Medway. 

Electric  cars  enter  Medway  from  Dedham. 
New  Medway  Hotel  built. 


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1900.  Rev.   R.   W.  Drawbridge  installed  pastor  of  the  Vil- 
lage Church. 

First  Hebrew  wedding  in  town. 
Deacon  Edmund  Shumway  died,  aged  75. 
Oct.  4th,  the  Second  Church  celebrates  its  150th  an- 
niversary. 

West  Medway  Grange  organized  Oct.  18th. 

1901.  Medway  clergymen  break  up  a  cocking  main  held  on  a 
Sunday  morning  on  Ellis  street. 

James  A.  Snow  killed  by  a  B.  &  A.  train  in  Boston. 

Rev.  Alexis  W.  Ide  died,  aged  75. 

John  McGinnis  died,  aged  42. 

George  W.  Bullard,  representative. 

Asa  M.  B.  Fuller  died,  aged  88. 

Legislature  authorizes  town  to  refund  license 
money  to  Lawrence  McGinnis,  Jr.,  which  is  ratified  by 
town  and  ends  the  contest. 

Sergeant  Walter  Gilmore  of  Co.  D,  46th  Infantry, 
killed  in  the  Philippines  and  buried  in  Evergreen  Cem- 
etery. 

Mrs.  Edna  J.  LeFavor  died,  aged  80. 

Medway  Historical  Society  organized  Dec.  22; 
Rev.  A.  H.  Wheelock,  president ;  R.  G.  Fairbanks,  sec- 
retary. 

1902.  Abel   Houghton  and  wife,  of  West  Medway,  celebrate 
their  62d  wedding  anniversary. 

Arthur  S.  Mann  spends  the  year  in  Australia  as  an 
expert  electrical  engineer. 

Rev.  George  R.  Hewitt  installed  pastor  of  the  Sec- 
ond Church. 

Thomas  Harding,  aged  78,  killed  by  train  in  Mil- 
lis. 

Edmond  Finnessey  died,  aged  74. 

Elbridge  G.  Ware  died,  aged  82. 

First  section  of  the  state  road  put  in  on  Village 
street. 

Julia  Malloy  died,  at  Framingham  hospital,  of 
burns. 


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19^2.     Hon.  Milton  M.  Fisher  publishes  his  autobiography. 
1903.     Med  way    Historical    Society   starts   a  movement  for  a 
Dr   Ide  monument,  for  which  object  Rev.  Ii.  K.  Harlow 
visits  every  church  in  the  Mendon  Conference. 

Deacon  Addison  A.  Smith  died,  aged  72. 

Town  Clerk  George  E.  Pond  died,  aged  62. 

Mrs.  Sarah  P.  Smith  died,  aged  92. 

Rural  free  delivery  of  mail  route  established  from 
Med  way  post  office. 

Mills  of  Ray  &  Wilson  on  Charles  River  bought  by 
the  Union  Wadding  Co.  of  Pawtucket. 

Hon.  Milton  M.  Fisher  dies,  April  19th,  aged  92. 

Fii>t  cottage  built  on  shores  of  Populatic  Pond. 

A.  M.  Smith  boot  shop  ceases  operations  after  71 
years  of  life. 

Medway  lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  presents  Lady  Minstrels 
in  San  ford  Hall. 

Putnam  R.  Clark  of  Millis,  son  of  a  Revolutionary 
soldier,  dies,  aged  72. 

First  automobile  owned  in  town  by  Archibald 
Park. 

Historical  Society  fits  up  the  old  Parish  House  in 
West  Medway  for  its  occupancy. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  W.  Hodges  celebrate  golden 
wedding,  Nov.  15. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lawrence  McGinnis  celebrate  their 
golden  wedding  anniversary,  Nov.  19th. 

*Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  F.  Cooper  celebrate  their  gol- 
den wedding  anniversary  on  Nov.  20th. 

Deacon  and  Mrs.  Horatio  Jones  of  Rockville  cele- 
brate their  golden  wedding  on  Thanksgiving  Day. 

Medway  Historical  Society  presents  Montgomery 
lodge,  Masons,  with  its  original  ballot  box,  100  years 
old. 

Historical  Society  places  markers  on  the  site  of  the 
George  Fairbanks  palisade  at  Boggestowe  Pond  and  at 
the  old  burying  ground  at  the  Farms. 

First  Old  Home  Day  celebration  held  at  West 
Medway,  July  28th. 


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1903.  Baptist  Church  celebrates  its  75th  anniversary,  Nov. 
14th  and  15th. 

Mrs.  Sarah  P.  Smith  dies,  aged  92. 
Famous   coal   famine ;     highest   price   charged   in 
Med  way,  $14  per  ton. 

Charles  S.  Mann  loses  a  limb  in  railroad  accident. 

1904.  S.  A.  R.  markers  placed  on  the  graves  of  Revolutiona- 
ry soldiers  in  the  old  cemeteries  at  Millis  and  West 
Medway. 

Evan  F.  Riohardson  of  Millis,  representative. 

Dedham  electric  cars  tied  up  for  ten  weeks  by 
snow  and  ice. 

The  Harlow  prizes  for  best-kept  lawns  offered  for 
the  first  time-  at  Medway. 

Mrs.  Abbie  K.  Miller  dies,  aged  71. 

Mrs.  Sylvia  P.  Richardson  dies  at  Millis,  aged  88. 

Old  Home  Day  celebrated  at  West  Medway,  Aug. 
3rd,  on  which  occasion  the  Dr.  Ide  monument  in  Ever- 
green cemetery  was  dedicated. 

Edmund  I.  Sanford,  the  blind  furniture  dealer,  dies, 
aged  60. 

Daniel  S.  Woodman  appointed  postmaster  at  West 
Medway. 

Earthquake  felt  in  town. 

Madden  &  Curtis  boot  factory  burned  at  West 
Medway ;  the  last  bootshop  in  town. 

Old  Clarke  Walker  house  burned  on  the  Flat. 

Gordon  Skinner  of  Roxbury  drowned  in  Populatic 
Pond. 

Elizabeth  P.  Wight  died,  aged  94. 

Ebenezer  Dearborn  died,  aged  91. 

1905.  Vital  records  of  the  town  from  1713  to  1850  published 
by  the  New  England  Historical  Genealogical  Society. 

Orion  T.  Mason,  representative. 

Mrs.  Mary  A.  Scott,  now  living  at  Grantville,  the 
youngest  daughter  of  a  Revolutionary  soldier  in  the 
United  States.     Her  age,  53  years. 

Rev.    Rufus    K.    Harlow  died  in  Barrington,  R.  I., 


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aged  71.  Funeral  services  were  held  in  the  Village 
Church,  Rev.  Webster  Woodbury  officiating. 
1906.  Elmer  E.  Bolbrook  died  May  17  after  a  brave  fight 
with  tuberculosis,  extending  over  several  vears.  For 
more  than  '20  years  he  was  the  West  Medway  repre- 
sentative of  the  Gazette,  in  which  connection  as  well  as 
in  many  other  ways  he  was  an  active  worker  in  every 
movement  looking  to  the  promotion  of  the  best  inter- 
ests of  the  town.  It  was  largely  through  his  efforts 
that  the  street  railway  service  between  this  town  and 
Milford  was  established.  To  him  belongs  also  the 
credit  for  the  establishment  of  the  free  public  library  at 
West  Medway. 

Herbert  N.  Hixon  tours  Europe. 

Swedish  club-house  built  at  Popolatic  Pond. 

West  Roxbury  extension  built  on  New  Haven 
Road,  and  for  the  first  time,  Medway  passengers  go  to 
Boston  over  one  line. 

Third  Old  Home  Day  celebration  held  at  West 
Medway,  August  6th. 

Archibald  Park  retires  from  firm  of  Hirsh  &  Park 
and  A.  M.  Guinzburg  becomes  resident  manager  of  the 
new  firm. 

Evan  F.  Richardson  of  Millis,  County  Commission- 
er for  three  year  term. 

Emerson  N.  Bullard  dies,  aged  86. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Benjamin  Treen  celebrate  their  gold- 
en wedding  on  Thanksgiving  Day. 

Captain  and  Mrs.  David  A.  Partridge  celebrate 
their  golden  wedding. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Justin  W.  Stickney  celebrate  their 
golden  wedding,  Nov.  9th. 

Eighteen  cases  of  Typhoid  fever,  resulting  in  two 
deaths  in  Medway. 

Rev.  Daniel  J.  Kelliher  transferred  to  Lowell. 

Rev.  William    J.    Dwyer,  pastor   of   St.   Joseph's 
church. 
1907.     Rufus  G.  Fairbanks  died,  Jan.  17th,  aged  48. 


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1907.     Mrs.  Havilah  Clark  died,  aged  85. 

Quinobequin  Grange,  No  267,  P.  of  H.,  organized 
at  Med  way,  February  11th. 

West  Medway  post  office  advanced  from  fourth  to 
third  class. 

George  H.  Thayer  of  Bellinghara  killed  by  fall 
from  electric  car  at  Medway. 

Captain  David  A.  Partridge  died,  aged  74.  For 
more  than  forty  years  he  had  served  the  town  in  many 
capacities. 

Last  district  school  in  town  closed  and  all  children 
transported  to  centre  schools. 

John  Clancy  of  Grantville  drowned  in  Charles 
River. 

John  Clancy  of  Medway,  commander  of  James  H. 
Sargent  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  died,  aged  74. 

Committee  appointed  by  town  to  investigate  a  sys- 
tem of  water  works,  and  the  final  agitation  for  town 
water  was  started. 

Nicholas  Lanagan  died,  aged  90. 

Louis  Alexander  Cary  died  at  Kimberly,  South 
Africa. 

Albert  W.  Barton,  a  veteran  and  an  ex -prisoner  of 
war  at  Anderson ville,  died,  aged  66. 

August  Wilbelmson  drowned  in  Popolatic  Pond. 

Daniel  Whooley  died,  aged  85. 

Rev.  Loring  B.  Chase,  acting  pastor  of  Village 
Church. 

Fred  G.  Kingston  frozen  to  death  at  West  Medway. 

1908.     Mr.  and  Mrs.  Archibald  Park  tour  Europe. 

Samuel  Hodgson  died,  aged  65. 

Mrs.  Joseph  W.  Thompson  died,  aged  77. 

Old  Barber  Cloth  Mill,  more  than  100  years  old 
and  the  oldest  mill  on  Charles  River,  demolished  at 
Medway. 

Medway  post  office  greatly  enlarged  and  fitted  up 
with  modern  furnishings. 

First  Hebrew  graduate  from  high  school. 


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1908.  Mrs.  Caroline  T.  Daniels  of  Boston  gives  $500.00 
to  perpetuate  the  award  of  Harlow  lawn  prizes  in  Med- 
way. 

Sewell  Smith  died,  aged  92. 

Isaac  C.  Greenwood  died,  aged  86;  a  veteran  of 
the  Civil  war. 

Legislature  grants  another  charter  for  water  works 
to  the  town 

East  Medway  Grange,  P.  of  H.,  celebrates  its  25th 
birthday. 

Dr.  Charles  W.  Emerson  dies  at  MillU,  aged  70. 

High  School  senior  class  inaugurates  the  custom  of 
visiting  Washington,  D.  C,  at  Eister  vacation. 

Rapid  Engine  Company  house  burned  at  noon, 
April  27th.     The  machine  saved. 

1909.  Henry  F.  Cooper,  Sr.,  the  veteran  florist,  died  at  Med- 
way, aged  77. 

First  town  meeting  called  Jan.  8th  for  bonding 
town  for  water  works.     Project  defeated. 

Eli  Whitney  Reynolds  died,  aged  84. 

Medway  Village  voters  petition  Legislature  for  a 
separate  water  district. 

Evan  F.  Richardson  of  Millis  re-elected  County 
Commissioner  for  another  term  of  three  years. 

The  Temperance  Hall  Association  disbands  after 
20  years'  organization  and  gives  11200  to  Oakland 
Cemetery  for  improvements. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sylvester  E.  Howard  celebrate  their 
golden  wedding. 

Miss  Harriet  Norton,  a  Medway  girl,  goes  through 
the  Turkish  massacre  at  Adana. 

George  H.  Hixon  died,  aged  71. 

Bear  trap  used  on  the  banks  of  Popolatic  Pond,  in 
1735,  given  to  Medway  Historical  Society. 

Class  of  1884,  Medway  High  School,  celebrates  its 
25th  anniversary  with  a  dinner  at  Hotel  Vendome, 
Boston. 

Conductor  George  Story,  one  of  the  oldest  on  this 
line  of  railroad,  died  after  44  years  of  service. 


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1909.  Willard  P.  Clark,  one  of  the  founders  of  the  town 
of  Millis,  and  many  times  an  official  of  Med  way,  died, 
aged  79. 

Evan  F.  Richardson  of  Millis,  Lecturer  of  State 
Grange,  P.  of  H. 

Class  initiation  of  M.  C.  O.  F.  in  Sanford  Hall, 
Medvvay,  over  300  members  of  the  order  attending. 

Frederick  C.  Clark,  representative. 

Rev.  Ray  E.  Butterfield,  acting  pastor  of  Village 
Church. 

1910.  First  Barn  Dan^e  held  in  town  ;  given  by  Quinobequin 
Grange. 

Mrs.  Olive  Shumway  Partridge  died,  aged  95. 

Mrs.  Eliza  Hixon  died,  aged  91. 

Twenty- fifth  anniversary  of  the  incorporation  of 
Millis  celebrated  in  Grange  Hall. 

Mrs.  Mary  Pearson  died,  aged  84. 

Town  now  spends  $3800  yearly  for  lighting  its 
streets. 

Jedediah  P.  Plummer  died,  aged  91. 

Ninth  town  meeting  held  in  May  on  the  water 
works  project. 

Old  Smith  boot  factory  burned  at  West  Medway. 

Oliver  Optic  Commandery,  Golden  Cross,  instituted 
at  Medway  with  40  charter  members. 

Miss  Emily  Masskrist  of  South  Boston  drowned  in 
Popolatic  Pond. 

Nicholas  P.  Noss,  after  serving  the  public  51  years 
in  one  locality,  closes  his  barber  shop  in  Sanford  Hall 
Block. 

On  Sept.  13th,  the  town  votes  to  bond  itself  for 
$95,000.00  to  install  water  works. 

Jewish  synagogue  dedicated  on  Bent  street,  Millis. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Owen  Mawn  celebrate  their  golden 
wedding,  Oct.  16th. 

Source  of  supply  for  water  works  and  pumping 
station  located  at  Popolatic  street,  Medway. 

Fabyan  Woolen  Company  purchase  Sanford  mills. 


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1910.  Second  Church  restores   its   auditorium  to   the   Colo- 
nial style. 

Chaplain  David  Sanford  fund  established  for 
scholarships  in  Med  way  High  School. 

Rev.  William  J.  Dwyer  is  transferred  to  Glouces- 
ter. 

Rev.  Martin  J.  Lee,  formerly  of  Franklin,  pastor  of 
St.  Joseph's. 

1911.  Joseph  Warren  Thompson,  a  veteran  boot  manufactur- 
er, died,  aged  84. 

James  Willis  drowned  in  river  near  Kissing  Bridge. 

James  H.  Sargent  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  has  29  members. 

Quinobequin  Grange  presents  town  with  two  drink- 
ing fountains. 

Mrs.  Esther  M.  Me  teal  f  dies,  aged  92. 

Town  Clerk  Henry  C.  Austin  dies,  aged  74. 

John  Martin,  a  soldier  stationed  at  Fort  Greble,  R. 
I.,  drowned  in  Sound. 

James  M.  Grant  drowned  in  Charles  River. 

June  24.  Sanford  Hall  burned  to  the  ground  with 
all  its  contents,  including  Dean  Library  with  10,000 
volumes. 

Town  water  first  used  in  August. 

John  Henry,  aged  76,  a  member  of  Co.  E,  2d  Mass  , 
dies  August  29. 

W.  L.  Palmer  builds  coal  elevator  and  pockets. 

Oct.  3d.     Medway  Woman's  Club  organized. 

Music  Hall  block  partially  burned  at  West  Med- 
way. 

Squire  Robinson  found  dead  near  Kingsbury's 
Pond. 

Charles  H.  Deans,  a  prominent  citizen  of  West 
Medway,  for  many  years  trial  justice,  dies  Dec.  12th, 
aged  79. 

Stone  Arch  bridge  at  Medway  demolished  and  a 
new  one  of  concrete  built  by  County  of  Norfolk,  Med- 
way and  Franklin. 

Three  engine  companies  of  120  men  disbanded  and 
two  hose  companies  of  30  men  formed. 


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1911.  American  Felt  Co.  closes  its  mills  at  Rockville. 

Aunt  Sally  Smith  dies  at  West  Medway,  aged  93. 

1912.  Jan.  13th,  coldest  day  ever  on  record  in  town,  22  below 
zero. 

Dr.  James  H  Gale  dies,  aged  74. 

Archibald  Park,  a  former  prominent  straw  manu- 
facturer, dies  in  New  York,  aged  62. 

Sanford  Hall  completed  in  September  at  a  cost  of 
$20,000. 

Dedication  ball  held  in  Sanford  Hall  by  Grange, 
Sept.  13th. 

Steeple  of  Millis  church  damaged  by  lightning. 

Louis  La  Croix  of  Millis  elected  a  representative  to 
the  General  Court. 

John  A.  Hutchins  died  in  Millis,  aged  84. 

Postmaster  Daniel  S.  Woodman  died  at  West  Med- 
way, aged  70. 

Committee  of  five  appointed  to  arrange  for  Bi-Cen- 
tennial  celebration  in  1913. 

June  26.  Timothy  J.  Sullivan  drowned  at  Rock- 
ville. 

The  first  deed  passed  on  land  belonging  to  the 
Joseph  Daniel  farm  in  Millis  since  1665. 

Alpha  Hat  Co.  starts  manufacturing  ladies'  hats  at 
Medway. 

Joseph  Litchfield  died,  aged  96. 

Timothy  Ide  died,  aged  97. 

Rev.  Preston  R.  Crowell  of  Petersham,  pastor  of 
Village  church. 

Rev.  Richard  J.  Quinlan  of  Holliston  died.  He 
was  pastor  of  St.  Joseph's  church,  Medway,  from  1870 
to  1885. 

Archie  Pollard  of  the  U.  S.  Marine  Corps  killed  at 
Barronca  Hill,  Nicaragua. 

Roosevelt  carries  Medway  in  November  election. 

Postmaster  Jerry  B.  Daniels  dies  at  Millis,  aged  50. 
1913.     Boy  Scouts  organized. 


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1913.  Historical  Society  hold  Old  Folks'  concert  and  Cafe 
Chantant  in  aid  of  Bi-Centennial  fund. 

Mellin's  Food  Co.  purchases  the  Steel  Edge  Works, 
Millis,  Jan.  7th. 

Paul  Daniels  of  Millis  wins  $2000.00,  first  prize  in 
Boston  Globe  Booklovers'  contest. 

Feb.  3.     Frederick  B.  T.  Miller  died,  aged  92. 

Feb.  7.     Mrs.  Julia  A.  Benner  died,  aged  96. 

Over  300  takers  of  town  water. 

Feb.  7.  Town  appropriates  $1,000.00  for  Bi-Cen- 
tennial. 

Feb.  10.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dennis  W.  Riordan  cele- 
brate their  golden  wedding. 

James  H.  Sargent  Post,  G.  A.  ft.,  has  a  member- 
ship of  21. 

Walter  M.  Cabot  purchases  the  old  Parish  House, 
home  of  the  Historical  society,  and  restores  it  to  its 
Colonial  condition. 

Town  votes  to  hold  its  Bi-Centennial  celebration 
on  July  4th,  5th,  and  6th,  a  Historical  Pageant  to  be 
one  of  the  principal  features,  and  the  bank  of  the  river 
at  Medway  the  spot  selected. 

May  15th,  this  handbook  published. 


RIVERS  AND  PONDS. 


Charles  River. — Indian  name  Quinobequin,  meaning  "Wind- 
ing River";  named  in  honor  of  Charles  I. ;  forms  the 
southern  boundary  of  Medway  and  the  southerly  and 
easterly  boundary  of  Millis. 

Popolatic  Pond. — Opposite  the  dividing  line  of  Medway  and 
Millis,  and  is,  in  fact,  a  part  of  the  river.  In  olden 
times  it  was  a  favorite  spawning  place  for  salt  wajber 
fish,  before  dams  were  built  on  the  river. 

Kingsbury's  Pond. —  A  smaller  spring- fed  pond  about  a  quar- 
ter of  a  mile  south  of  Popolatic.  It  has  no  inlet  nor 
outlet  and  was  named  for  the  family  living  on  and  own- 
ing the  banks. 

Winthrop  Pond. — Now  wholly  in  Holliston ;  was  until  1829 
half  in  Med  way's  territory.  Its  Indian  name  was 
"Winnekenning,"  or  "the  smile  of  the  Great  Spirit." 
Its  English  name  was  given  in  honor  of  a  son  of  Gov- 
ernor Winthrop,  who  was  granted  land  upon  its  bor- 
ders. 

South  End  Pond. — At  the  extreme  northeasterly  part  of  Mil- 
lis. It  is  made  from  the  waters  of  Boggestowe  brook, 
and  on  its  banks  the  first  settlement  in  Medway  was 
made. 

Lily  Pond.— A  small  pond  lying  between  Oakland  and  St.  Jo- 
seph's cemeteries.  Famous  for  the  great  number  of 
aquatic  plants  growing  in  and  about  it. 

Chicken  Brook. — Drains  a  considerable  portion  of  the  north- 
ern part  of  the  town  and  empties  into  Charles  River  at 
West  Medway.  It  was  named  on  account  of  an  early 
settler  who  lost  a  crate  of  chickens  by  drowning  while 
fording  it. 

Boggestowe  Brook. —Rises   in  East  Holliston  and  runs  for 


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miles  through  the  north  pait  of  Millis,  emptying  into 

South  End  Pond,  and  thence  into  Charles  River. 
Black  Fly  Brook. — Rises  in  Dry  Bridge  Hill,  and  after  trav- 
ersing Black  Swamp,   joins  Boggestowe  Brook  in  the 

swamp  in  the  Brick  Yard  region. 
Hoppin  River. — Rises  in   the   northwest   part   of   the   town, 

forming  at  its  mouth  the  boundary  line  between  Med- 

way  and  Bellingham. 
Long  Walk  Brook — Is  on  the  Franklin  side  of  the  river;  so 

named  from  the  fact  that  settlers  in  the  "now"  "North 

Franklin"  had  a  considerable  distance  to  walk  to  attend 

meetings  in  Wrentham. 
Mine  Brook. — Another   Franklin    Brook   that    empties   into 

Charlss  River  west  of  West  Medway. 
Hog  Pond. — A  small  mud  hole  in  the  fork  of  Village  and  Main 

streets,  famous  a  century  ago  as  the  scene  of  the  "Hog 

Pond  Ghost." 
Dingle  Hole. — A  large  pool   of   black,  stagnant  water   near 

Oak  Grove  Farm,  Millis.   A  century  ago  it  was  believed 

that  it  had  no  bottom. 


BRIDGES. 

Great  Bridge. — The  first  built  on  the  river  between  Med  field 
and  the  west,  in  1670  ;  burned  by  the  Indians  in  1676, 
rebuilt  in  1686.  For  many  years  the  only  means  of 
travel  from  Dedham  westward.  Used  by  the  old  Bos- 
ton and  Hartford  Middle  Post  road.  Afterwards  called 
Brastow's  Bridge  from  a  family  of  that  name  living 
near  it. 

Dwight's  Bridge. — Built  before  1700  to  accommodate  Timo- 
thy Dwight,  who  owned  hay  land  on  this  side  of  the 
river. 

Turnpike  Bridge. — On  Main  street.     Built  by  the  Turnpike 

Company  in  1806;  replaced  by  Norfolk  County  in  1909 

by  one  of  cement. 
Lovell's  Bridge. — Connecting  Jade    walk  in    Medfield   with 

Forest  street  in  Millis. 
Baltimore  Bridge — Bridge  at  Rockville,  so  named  from  its 

proximity  to  Baltimore  Mills. 
Rockville   Bridge. — Connecting    Old   "Kock    Bottom"  with 

North  Wrentham,  now  Norfolk. 
River  End  Bridge. — At  the  old  fording  place  on  the  river,  at 

the  Samuel  Partridge  place. 
Walker  Street  Bridge. — On  the  flat   at  Med  way,   near  the 

old  Comfort  Walker  mill  site. 
Franklin  Bridge. —  First  built  of  wood,  early  in  the  history 

of  the  town;  several  times  replaced;  stone  bridge  built 

in  1847;  one  of  concrete  in  1911. 
Arch  Bridge. — At  Shaw  street,  West  Med  way. 
North  Franklin  Bridge. — With  its  twin  arches  between  the 

Shumway  neighborhood  and   the   settlement   at  North 

Franklin. 


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Six  Small   Bridges  over  Chicken  Brook.  —Two  of  stone  on 

Village  and  Main  streets,  and  the  remainder  of  wood. 
Old  North  Bridge. — Over  Boggestowe  Brook  at  the  Neck  in 

Millis. 
Grist  Mill  Bridge. — Over  Boggestowe  Brook  at   the   site  of 

the  first  grist  mill  at  the  old  North  End. 
Morse's  Foot  Bridge. — At  Med  way,  the  smallest  and  one  of 

the  most  picturesque  on  Cturles  River. 


OLD  GRANT  LOCALITIES. 


The  Old  Grant. — In  1649,  granted  to  Dedham  all  the  lands, 
now  Millis,  as  far  as  School  street  in  Medway. 

George  Fairbank's  Palisades. — Or  Garrison  House,  built 
before  1675  by  the  men  of  the  Farms.  Its  site  is  on 
the  Rotman  Farm  in  Millis,  but  the  last  vestige  of  it 
has  been  removed. 

Long  Plain. — Extending  from  the  present  meeting  house  of 
the  First  Church  in  Millis,  eastward. 

Bare  Hill. — Afterward  called  Meeting  House  Hill,  the  site  of 
the  first  churches  of  the  parish  and  the  first  burying 
ground;  is  directly  across  from  the  LaCroix  place  in 
Millis. 

The  Neck. — That  portion  of  the  ancient  town  lying  north  of 
Boggestowe  Brook. 

North  End. — That  part  of  Millis  lying  nearest  to  Sherborn. 

Great  Island,  Bbidge  Island,  Poor  Duck  Island. —  Wooded 
hills  growing  out  of  the  swamp  near  Long  Plain. 

Popple  Squash  Swamp. — A  great  marsh  extending  from  the 
Great  Bridge  to  the  Joseph  Daniel  place  in  Millis. 

Black  Swamp.— A  huge  swamp  in  the  middle  of  the  ancient 
town,  covering  hundreds  of  acres. 

Medfield  Meadows. — Low  grassy  meadows,  covering  many 
acres  and  lying  on  both  sides  of  the  river  from  Med- 
field to  Millis. 

Brick  Yards. — Situated  in  Millis,  settled  on  by  John  Clark, 
and  from  early  days  occupied  by  brick  kilns. 

The  Bent. — Or  bend  of  the  river;  that  part  of  the  town  em- 
bracing Rockville. 

Rock  Bottom. — The  ancient  name  for  Rockville. 

Baltimore  Mills. — The  last  mill  site  on  the  river  before 
South  Natick,  situated  in  Rockville. 


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Deanville. — The  land  annexed  from  North  Wrentham  in 
1792,  and  named  in  honor  of  Dean  Walker,  who  built 
up  a  settlement  on  its  territory. 

'The    Old    Brick." — The  oldest   school    building   in   town, 
erected  in  East  Med  way  in  1823. 

The  Old  Bent  School  House. — Now  used  as  a  dwelling 
house,  the  second  oldest  school  house  in  town,  at  the 
head  of  Green  street,  in  Rockville. 

King  Philip's  Trees. — A  clump  of  Tupelo  trees  on  the 
Moses  Adams  place  in  Millis.  The  scene  of  the  Indian 
barbecue  in  Feb.,  1676. 

Indian  Orchard. — A  group  of  natural  fruit  apple  trees  on  the 
west  bank  of  Popolatic  Pond. 

Iron  Spring. —  At  the  extreme  end  of  Popolatic  Pond. 

Indian  Stepping  Stones. — Just  above  the  Big  Rock  at  Med- 
way.  At  low  water  they  are  plainly  visible  and  mark 
the  crossing  place  on  the  old  Indian  trail  from  Winne- 
kenning  to  Popolatic. 

The  Big  Rock. — A  boulder  that  has  been  u^ed  by  eight  gen- 
erations of  boys  in  their  bathing  place  at  Medway. 

Pawsett  Hill  — Near  the  King  Philip  trees,  Millis. 

Granny  Darling  Lot. — Now  an  orchard  near  the  turnpike 
in  Medway.  Heie  lived  for  many  years  in  the  woods, 
Mrs.  Mary  Darling,  who  died  in  1865,  aged  103. 

Candlewood  Island.—  A  high  spot  in  Black  Swamp,  on  the 
Edward  Clark  farm,  covered  with  pitch  pine  trees. 
Oakland  street  was  in  old  times  called  "Candlewood 
Island  Road"  and  to  this  day  is  called  the  "Island 
Road." 

The  Flat. — -The  long,  low,  level  part  of  Medway,  running 
eastward  from  Village  Hill. 

Peck's  Plain. — That  part  of  the  Flat  eastward  from  the  old 
Seth  Harding  place,  where  in  winter,  the  mercury  goes 
lower  and  the  winds  blow  harder  than  anywhere  else  in 
town. 


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Factory  Village. — The  name  given  Medway  Village  about 
1812,  when  manufacturing  started  and  a  boom  was  in- 
augurated. 

Village  Hill  —  Vt  the  extreme  west  of  the  old  grant  on  the 
old  Hartford  Post  road  in  Medway. 

New  City. — A  settlement  in  Medway  built  up  on  Oakland 
street. 

Cockerell  Hill  — The  entrance  to  New  City,  at  the  junction 
of  Oakland  and  Knowlton  streets. 

Paul's  Hill.— Now  owned  by  Monroe  Morse.  On  it  stands 
the  oldest  dwelling  in  town,  built  in  1688. 

The  Old  Canal  — It  was  built  early  in  the  century,  at  Fac- 
tory Village  and  made  Goose  Island.    Filled  up  in  1909. 

Second  Grist  Mill. — On  Boggestowe,  that  of  Joseph  Daniel, 
2d,  near  the  "Priest"  Hiram  Daniel's  place,  Millis. 

Robert  Hinsdell's  Mill. — Built  in  1662  on  Boggestowe  in 
the  north  end.     Used  as  a  mill  site  until  1912. 


NEW  GRANT  LOCALITIES. 


The  New  Grant. — Made  to  Medfleld  by  toe  General  Court 
in  1659,  a  tract  in  addition  to  former  lands,  two  miles 
east  and  west,  and  four  miles  north  and  south,  taking 
in  the  whole  of  the  village  of  West  Medway,  the  great- 
er part  of  Medway  and  a  considerable  part  of  Metcalf 
Station,  with  some  territory  in  Hollistou. 

Mucksquit. — The  region  bordering  on  Winthrop  Pond,  ex- 
tending down  to  the  George  Lawrence  neighborhood. 
Sometimes  called  "Squitville"  or  "Squit." 

Kabbit  Hill — That  part  of  West  Medway  on  which  stands 
the  meeting  house  of  the  Second  Church. 

Sodom.— Sometimes  called  Plainville ;  that  portion  of  West 
Medway  below  Chicken  Brook,  near  the  Baptist 
Church.  In  and  about  1830,  Universalisfc  services  were 
held  here ;  hence  the  name  given  by  the  more  Orthodox 
brethren  of  the  town. 

Drybridge  Hill. — And  school  house  on  Main  street,  so  called 
for  the  under- ground  passage  made  to  accommodate 
cattle  under  the  turnpike. 

Shumway's  Grove. — A  group  of  noble  oaks  on  the  old  Shum- 
way  Farm,  used  for  many  years  for  celebrations  and 
picnics. 

Woodland  Park.— A  tract  of  pine  woods  across  the  river 
from  West  Medway,  once  a  famous  picnic  ground. 

Holy  Cross. — The  neighborhood  lying  adjacent  to  the  junc- 
tion of  Summer  and  Milford  streets. 

Squire  Levi  Adams  Tavern. — At  the  corner  of  Summer  and 
Main  streets ;  a  noted  stand  in  old  scage  days. 

Old  Tavern  House. — Just  east  of  the  Second  meeting  house 
in  West  Medway  ;  another  old-time  tavern. 

Old  Stone  Mill. — On    Chicken    Brook,    Main   street,    West 


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Medway;  built  out  of  a  huge  boulder  that  Was  imbedded 
in  a  field  back  of  the  L.  S.  Daniels'  boot  factory. 
Old  Whiting  Mill.— The  oldest  Mill  site  on  Chicken  Brook, 
above  Mechanics  street,  West  Medway. 

First  Carpet  Mill  in  the  United  States. — On  Chicken 
Brook,  near  Winthrop  street,  West  Medway. 

Old  Cutler  House.  —  Winthrop  street.  The  oldest  dwelling 
in  the  New  Grant.  Now  owned  by  A  L.  Smith.  Here 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Ide  commenced  housekeeping,  and  meet- 
ings of  the  Second  Chuich  were  held  here  frequently 
on  cold  Sundays. 

Great  West  Woods.— The  forest  originally  extending  from 
Summer  street  to  Milford  and  Bragg ville. 

Summer  Street. — Originally  the  boundary  between  Holliston 
and  Medway,  until  1829,  when  the  present  boundary 
was  established. 

Vine  Lane,  Mechanics  Street,  Oak  Street. — Originally  one 
road.     One  of  the  earliest  laid  out  in  the  New  Grant. 

Lovers'  Lane  —A  short  street  in  Medway,  leading  from  Vil- 
lage street,  that  has  borne  this  name  for  a  century. 

New  Chicago. — A  settlement  on  Lovers'  Lane. 

Bunker  Hill. —  A  small  wooded  eminence  across  the  river 
from  the  old  Whiting  mill. 

Coffee  Lot.— The  tract  in  Black  Swamp  on  which  in  Revo- 
lutionary times,  Ishmael  Coffee,  of  Indian  and  Negro 
origin,  lived  with  his  wife,  Hannah.  They  raised  16 
children  in  a  small  one- story  house. 

The  Big  Rocks.— Huge  boulders  left  by  pre-historic  glaciers 
in  the  neighborhood  of  the  old  Bullard  saw  mills  on 
Ellis  street. 

Gonka. — Indian  name  for  land  near  river  in  vicinity  of  Big 
Rock. 

Old  Parish  House-— Built  1814,  its  timbers  from  the  old 
first  meeting  house  in  the  Second  Precinct;  now  head- 
quarters of  Medway  Historical  Society. 


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Mechanics  FIall. —  Built  in  1852  out  of  timbers  of  the  first 
meeting  house  of  the  Baptist  Society.  For  many  years 
the  headquarters  of  the  Knights  of  St.  Crispin. 

Hastings  Spring. — A  famous  spring  near  the  site  of  the  first 
meeting  house  in  the  Second  Precinct.  Its  waters  are 
as  clear  now  as  200  years  ago. 

Baptizing  Place,  Chicken  Brook — Just  above  the  stone 
mill,  used  by  the  Baptist  society  for  over  40  years  for 
the  immersion  of  converts. 

Torrey  House. —  Built  for  Mrs.  Mary  Ide  Torrey  by  the  Ab- 
olition Society  after  the  death  of  her  husband  in  a 
Southern  prison,  1846.  Stands  just  west  of  the  Dr. 
Ide  place  on  Main  street. 

Hixon  Corner. — Corner  of  Holliston  and  Main  streets. 

Old  Training  Field. — Used  by  militia  tor  musters  for  many 
years,  on  the  old  Hunt  farm,  now  the  Methodist  neigh- 
borhood on  Cottage  street. 

Old  Brick  School. — Now  standing  on  Fisher  street  near  the 
Bellingham  line.     A  picturesque  relic  of  olden  times. 

Site  of  the  First  School  in  New  Grant. — Where  the 
barn  on  the  Marston  estate  stands. 

Site  of  First  Meeting  House  in  New  Grant. — Near 
Frederick  W.  Clark's  on  Main  street. 

Old  Adams  Grist  Mill. — On  J.  G.  Sanderson's  place  on 
Chicken  Brook. 

Old  District  No.  4  Schoolhouse. — On  Slocumb  place  near 
Second  Congregational  Church;  built  1815. 

Old  North  School.  — Its  site  South  East  of  Jewish  Synagogue 
on  corner  of  Winthrop  and  Partridge  streets.  In  1790 
over  100  pupils  attended  the  winter  session. 

Bullard  Saw  Mills. — In  woods  off  Ellis  street;  conducted 
for  years  by  Ethan  and  Aner  Bullard  with  a  good 
water  power  where  now  only  a  trickling  brook  runs  in 
the  winter  and  spring. 


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Old  Plympton  Place. — On  Village  street  near  the  subway. 
One  of  the  oldest  improved  farms  in  the  New  Grant; 
house  burned  a  dozen  years  ago. 

Henry  Garnsey  Place. — Older  than  the  town — the  well  is 
still  in  existence  In  rear  of  Phiueas  McNutt's  building 
on  Village  and  High  streets;  the  old  oak  that  stood  for 
more  than  200  years  taken  down  very  recently. 

Happy  Hollow — The  neighborhood  beyond  Cutler  row  on 
High  street. 

Adams  Neighborhood. — That  part  of  Muoksquit,  where,  from 
Crane's  Corner  to  the  residence  of  Mr.  Charles  A.  Wil- 
son, every  house  belonged  to  an  Adams  over  100  years 
ago. 

Potash  Road. — Running  from  Milford  street  near  Hotel 
Dewey  to  Bear  Hill,  Milford,  named  from  old  potash 
works  situated  there  in  olden  times. 

Soapstone  Mines. — On  Meyer  Gotz'  farm  at  Holliston  line, 
used  years  ago  by  local  parties. 

Site  of  House  op  Rev.  David  Thurston  and  Rev.  David 
Sanford. — At  residence  of  Henry  E.  Towne  on  Main 
street,  West  Medway. 


BURYING  PLACES. 


1660.  Most  Rncient  burying  place;  in  South  Sherborn,  near 
Death's  Bridge.  Here  all  the  early  settlers  in  the 
Farms  rest  from  their  toil  and  privations.  George  Fair- 
banks, Henry  and  Hopestill  Leyland,  John  Death,  Ben- 
jamin Bullard  and  other  Puritan  pioneers. 

1714.  First  burial  place  on  Bare  Hill,  near  the  site  of  the 
first  meeting  house.  In  its  enclosure  all  the  fathers  of 
the  town  sleep,  and  it  is  the  final  resting  place  of 
seventy-four  soldiers  of  the  American  Revolution. 

1750.  Second  Precinct  Burying  Ground  in  the  rear  of  the 
site  of  the  First  meeting  house  of  the  precinct.  For 
seventy-five  years  the  only  place  of  burial  in  the  New 
Grant.  It  contains  the  ashes  of  thirty-eight  Revolu- 
tionary soldiers. 

1826.  Evergreen  Ometery  laid  out  on  the  east  of  the  Second 
Precinct  burying  ground  in  West  Med  way,  and  now  in- 
corporated with  it. 

1855.  The  old  Churchyard  cemetery  incorporated  and  addi- 
tional land  acquired,  joining  the  Old  Bare  Hill  burying 
ground  in  East  Medway. 

1865.  Oakland  Cemetery  laid  out  at  Medway  by  Milton  M. 
Fisher.  Now  owned  by  the  Village  Church  and  Socie- 
ty- 

1876.  St.  Joseph's  Cemetery  on  Oakland  street,  consecrated 
for  burial  purposes,  and  owned  by  St.  Joseph's  Catholic 
Society  of  Medway. 


FRENCH  AND  INDIAN  WARS. 


This  town  furnished  troops  as  follows 

:  — 

No.  Men 

Capt.  Nathaniel  Whiting  impressed 

1745 

65 

Lieut.  Nathaniel  Clark              " 

1754 

2 

Men  that  served  at  Crown  Fort 

36 

Under  Captain  Edward  Clark 

1754 

22 

Again  at  Crown  Point 

1756 

12 

Impressed  in 

1756 

23 

Impressed  September  4, 

1756 

7 

"        April  3, 

1758 

40 

"         May  2, 

1758 

32 

"         May  23, 

1758 

22 

Under  Lord  Louden,  March  22, 

1759 

21 

Pay  Roll  of  1759 

59 

Names  of  Soldiers* 


Capt.  Jonathan  Adams, 
Nathan  Adams, 
Phineas  Adams, 
Eleazer  Adams, 
Isaac  Adams, 
Thomas  Adams, 
Stephen  Adams, 
Moses  Adams, 
Oliver  Adams, 
George  Bai  ber, 
Joseph  Barber, 
Joseph  Barber,  Jr., 
James  Barber, 


Jonathan  Adams,  Jr., 
Dea.  Eiisha  Adams, 
Jesse  Adams, 
John  Anderson, 
John  Alden, 
Seth  Allen, 
Nathaniel  Allen, 
Ebenezer  Allen, 
John  Andey, 
Joseph  Baxter, 
James  Boyden, 
Ebenezer  Blake, 
John  Boden, 


SECOND  CONGREGATIONAL  CHURCH— 1814. 


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Daniel  Bullen, 
Jabez  Bullen, 
Nathan  Bullard, 
John  Bullard, 
Malachi  Ballard, 
Jesse  Carpenter, 
Benjamin  Cochs, 
Amos  Clark, 
Henry  Clark, 
John  Clark, 
David  Clarke, 
Edward  Clark, 
James  Clark, 
Theophilus  Clark, 
Nathaniel  Clark, 
Nathaniel  Cutler, 
Elisha  Cutler, 
Samuel  Cutler, 
Joseph  Curtis, 
Henry  Daniels, 
Timothy  Daniels, 
Jeremiah  Daniels,  Jr., 
David  Daniels, 
Ezra  Daniels, 
John  Daniels, 
Jonathan  Ellice, 
Henery  Ellice, 
Seth  Ellise, 
William  Ellis, 
Abner  Ellis, 
Asa  Ellis, 
Jonas  Fairbanks, 
Joseph  Fairbanks, 
George  Fairbinks, 
Timothy  Force, 
Job  Harding, 
Joshua  Harding, 
Joseph  Harding, 


Rev.  Nathan  Bucknam, 
Henery  Bullard, 
Elisha  Bullard, 
Hoseiah  Bullard, 
Timo.  Bullard, 
John  Carpenter, 
William  Clemens, 
Asa  Clark, 
Timothy  Clark, 
Nathaniel  Clark,  Jr., 
Simeon  Clark, 
Left.  Temo.  Clark, 
Elijah  Clark, 
David  Clark,  Jr  , 
Jonah  Clark, 
Simon  Cutler, 
Elisha  Cuttlear, 
Simeon  Cuttlear, 
Henry  Daniell,  Jr., 
Moses  Daniels, 
Samuel  Daniels, 
Asa  Daniels, 
Nathan  Daniels, 
Joseph  Daniels, 
William  Daniels, 
Timothy  Ellice,      . 
Elisha  Ellice, 
John  Ellis, 
Samuel  Ellis, 
Benjamin  Ellis, 
Ebenezer  Ellis, 
Dea.  Samuel  Fisher, 
Joseph  Follet, 
William  Grant, 
Jonathan  Hall, 
Nathan  Harding, 
Theodore  Harding, 
Ichaburd  Harding, 


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Isaac  Harding, 
John  Harding, 
Abraham  Harding, 
Samuel  Hawes, 
John  Harris, 
Joseph  Harris, 
Samuel  Hill, 
Jonathan  Hill, 
Timothy  Hill, 
Simon  Hill, 
John  Hucker, 
Samuel  Jones, 
Joseph  Lovel, 
Thomas  Metcalf, 
Timo.  Metcalf, 
John  Melles, 
Ezekiel  Mors, 
Henery  Morse, 
Gershom  Morse, 
Eli  Partridge, 
Caleb  Partridge, 
Moses  Partridge, 
Joshuay  Partridge, 
Timothy  Partridge, 
James  Partridge, 
James  Pennyman, 
Ensine  Plympton, 
Daniel  Richardson, 
Samuel  Richardson, 
Nathan  Richardson, 
Moses  Richardson, 
William  Rixford, 
Samuel  Rockwood, 
Timothy  Rockwood, 
Josiah  Rockwood, 
Joseph  Rockwood, 
Sambo  "Freeman," 
Moses  Thompson, 


John  Harding,  Jr., 
Seth  Harding, 
Tho.  Harding, 
Ichabod  Hawes, 
Erastus  Harris, 
Samuel  Hay  ward, 
Samuel  Hill, 
Jonathan  Hill,  Jr., 
Ebenezer  Hill, 
Seth  Hixon, 
Thomas  Jons, 
Jethro  Jones, 
Hop  Lovel, 
Samuel  Metcalf, 
Lieut.  Metcalf, 
John  Mills, 
Uriah  Morse, 
Temo.  Morse, 
Henry  Morse,  Jr., 
Sergt.  Seth  Partridge, 
Malechi  Partridge, 
Nathaniel  Partridge, 
Silas  Partridge, 
Silem  Partridge, 
Jacob  Parker, 
Joseph  Perry, 
Job  Plympton, 
William  Richardson, 
Ira  Richardson, 
David  Richardson, 
Asa  Richardson, 
Benjamin  Rockwood, 
Hezekiah   Rockwood, 
Asa  Rockwood, 
Moses  Rockwood, 
Seth   Rockwood, 
Abel  Smith, 
Jonathan  Underwood, 


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John  Varney, 

Capt.  Nathaniel  Whiting,Sr., 
David  Wheten, 
Joshua  Wheten, 
Jonathan  Wheeler, 
Joseph  Whitney, 
Eleazer  Wight, 
James  Wight. 


Nathan  Whiting, 
Benjamin  Whiting, 
Daniel  Wheeton, 
Joseph  Wheten, 
Joshuay  Whitney, 
Lem'y  Write, 
William  Williams, 


THE  WAR  OF  1812. 


Medway  furnished  but  few  soldiers  in  this  war,  and  there 
is  no  official  record  from  which  to  give  their  names.  The 
following  citizens  of  the  town  served  for  longer  or  shorter 
periods : — 

Simeon  Ellis,  Cephas  Thayer, 

Capt.  Jeremy  Daniels,  Joshua  Fairbanks, 

Leonard  Fairbanks,  Silas  Fairbanks, 

Charles    Howard. 


REVOLUTIONARY  WAR.— 1775- J  783. 


Med  way,  like  most  of  the  towns  in  this  Commonwealth, 
had,  previcus  to  the  outbreak  of  hostilities  with  England, 
companies  of  trained  minute  men,  armed  and  drilled.  Two 
companies  from  our  town  answered  the  alarm  of  April  19, 
1775,  marching  to  Iioxbury,  where  they  served  for  some  time. 
The  company  from  the  Old  Grant,  now  Millis,  under  Captain 
Joshua  Partridge,  had  thirty-seven  men.  The  company  from 
the  New  Grant,  now  Medway,  under  Lieutenant  Moses  Adams, 
had  thirty-six  men.  Medway  men  served  in  all  the  opera- 
tions in  New  England,  aud  in  many  of  those  in  New  York 
and  New  Jersey.  Granted  that  many  of  them  saw  service 
only  of  short  duration,  yet  the  fact  remains,  that  Massachu- 
setts was  the  first  colony  to  rebel  against  the  English  crown, 
and  that  the  conduct  of  her  yeomanry  made  the  independence 
of  our  country  a  possibility.  Medway's  record  in  the  contest 
is  one  for  which  no  son  need  blush. 


Medway's  Revolutionary  Soldiers* 


Capt.  Jonathan  Adams,  Lieut.   Moses  Adams, 

Abner  Adams,  Eliab  Adams, 

Joel  Adams,  Titus  Adams, 

Thomas  Adams,  Kliakim  Adams, 

Philemon  Adams,  Lieut.  Oliver  Adams, 

Obidiah  Adams,  Reuben  Adams, 

Phineas  Adams,  Elisha  Adams, 

Jonathan  Adams,  Jun'r,  Daniel  Adams, 

Jonathan  Adams,  3d,  Fisher  Adams, 

Timothy  Adams,  George  Alerson, 

John  Allen,  Seth  Allen, 

Elijah  Allen,  Jonathan  Allen, 


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Abijah  Allen, 
John   Albee, 
John  Anderson, 
George  Barber, 
Joseph  Barber, 
Asa  Blake. 
Jacob  Boyd en, 
Alexander  Bragg, 
Prince  Bruoster, 
Jonas  Brick, 
Rev.  Nathan  Bucknam, 
Sergt.  Samusl  Bullen, 
Jonathan   Ballen, 
Corp.  Hezikiah  Bullard, 
Lieut.  Nathan  Ballard, 
Josiah  Bullard, 
Elijah  Bullard, 
Timothy  Bullard, 
John  Bullard, 
Joseph  Bullard, 
Henry  Bush, 
Lieut.  Stephen  Clark, 
Serg.  Theodore  Clark, 
Joseph  Clark, 
James  Clark, 
David  Clark, 
Timothy  Clark, 
Billing  Clap, 
Samuel  Cleaveland, 
Hezekiah  Comacho, 
John  Combs, 
Elias  Craig, 
Timothy  Cheaver, 
Roger  Ciain, 
Simon  Cutler, 
Luther  Cutler, 
Loreing  Cushing, 
Benj.  Davidson, 


Dwight  Allen, 
John  Alden, 
John  Baker, 
James  Barber, 
Jacob  Bliss, 
Sergt.  James  Boyden, 
Isaac  Bovden, 
Amos  Broad, 
James  Brick, 
Samuel  Brinton, 
Lieut.  Jeduthan  Bullen, 
Daniel  Bullen, 
Ashbel  Bullen, 
Sergt.  Isaac  Bullard, 
Henry  Bullard, 
Henry  Bullard,  Jun'r, 
Eli  Bullard, 
Adam  Bullard, 
Joshua  Bullard, 
Henry  Burk, 
Jesse  Carpenter, 
Lieut.  Asa  Clark, 
Benjamin  Clark, 
Francis  Clark, 
Elijah  Clark, 
Nath'l  Clark, 
Elijah  Clark,  Jun'r, 
Eliphaz  Clap, 
Damon  Clifford, 
Nathan  Coolidge, 
Ishmael  Coffee, 
Thomas  Coffee, 
Jeremiah  Crocker, 
Jeremiah  Curtis, 
Elisha  Cutler, 
Lovel  Cushing, 
Wilm.  Damsey, 
John  Davidson, 


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John  Dickerson, 

Jesse  Day, 

Isaiah  Daniell, 

Levi  Daniell, 

Jesse  Daniell, 

Capt.  Jeremiah  Daniels, 

Asa  Daniels,  Jun'r, 

David  Daniels, 

Samuel  Demon, 

Charles  Dupee, 

John  Ellis, 

Ebenezer  Ellis, 

Asa  Ellis, 

Abel  Ellis, 

Jonathan  Ellis, 

Elijah  Ellis, 

Paul  Ellis, 

Corp.  Abijah  Fairbanks, 

Silas  Fairbanks, 

Ashael  Fairbanks, 

Elijah  Farrington, 

Corp.  Obed  Fisher, 

Nathan  Fisher, 

Nathan  Fisher,  Jun'r, 

Cyrus  Fisher, 

Henry  Flemnring, 

Peter  Frost, 

Asa  Fuller, 

Josiah  Fuller, 

Josiah  Ide, 

John  Gould, 

Jotham  Graves, 

Jonathan  Graves, 

Capt.  Timothy  Hamant, 

Capt.  Samuel  Harding, 

Corp.  Stephen  Harding, 

John  Harding,  2nd, 

Ichabod  Harding, 


Capt  Joseph  Daniell, 
Joseph  Daniell,  Jun'r, 
Henry  Daniell, 
Lemeuel  Daniell, 
Corp.  Jeremiah  Daniel, 
Henry  Daniels,  Jun'r, 
Moses  Daniels, 
Levi  Daniels, 
Seth  Dixon, 
Lieut.  John  Ellis,  Jun'r, 
Timothy  Ellis, 
Henry  Ellis, 
Abuer  Ellis, 
Eli  Ellis, 
Asa  Ellis,  Jun'r, 
William  Ellis, 
Sergt.  Jonathan  Everet, 
George  Fairbanks,  Jun'r, 
Joel  Fairbanks, 
Jothan  Fairbanks, 
Ebenezer  Ferrington, 
John  W.  Fisher, 
Samuel  Fisher, 
Samuel  Fisher,  Jun'r, 
Jonathan  Fisher, 
Jonathan  Foster, 
Capt.  Josiah  Fuller, 
Bartholomew  Fuller, 
Lieut  Daniel  Ide, 
Calvin  Cay, 
Nathan  Grout, 
Lieut.  Joshua  Gould, 
David  Hagar, 
Lieut.  John  Harding, 
Corp.  Elias  Harding, 
Lieut.  Abraham  Harding, 
Abraham  Harding,  Jun'r, 
Thomas  Harding, 


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Theodor  Harding, 

Thomas  Harding,  Jun'r, 

Isaac  Harding, 

Job  Harding, 

Sergt.  Erastus  Harris, 

David  Harris, 

Nathan  Hall, 

Ichabod  Hawes, 

Joel  Hawes, 

Ichabod  Hawes,  Jun'r, 

Eli  Hawes, 

John  Hawes, 

Sam.  Hayward, 

Sergt.  Simon  Hill, 

John  Hill, 

Samuel  Hill, 

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Moses  Hill, 

Jacob  Hrirt, 

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Samuel  Hill,  Jun'r, 

Enoch  Hill, 

Seth  Hixon, 

Serg.  Isaac  Heton, 

Zebulon  Hodges, 

Lieut.  Aaron  Holbrook, 

Corp.  Cornelius  Holbrook, 

Paul  Holbrook, 

Jonathan  Holbrook, 

Henry  Holbrook, 

Matthew  Hopkins, 

David  Hoges, 

John  Sylvester  Johnson, 

Albert  Jones, 

Abel  Jones, 

Nathan  Jones, 

Thomas  Jones, 

Simson  Jones, 

Sam'l  Jones, 

Isaac  Kibbe, 

John  Kilburn, 

Corp.  Isaac  Kilbee, 

Sergt.  Stephen  Kingsbury, 

Corp.  Asa  Kingsbury, 

James  Kingsbury, 

Ebenezer  Knowlton, 

Capt.  Joseph  Lovell, 

Nathaniel  Lovell, 

Timothy  Lane, 

Amos  Lawrence, 

Josiah  Lawrence, 

John  Littlefleld, 

Jeremiah  Littlefleld, 

Elihu  Lawrence, 

William  Lee, 

Robord  Long, 

Ebenezer  Lyon, 

Daniel  Marrow, 

Sergt.  Seth  Mason, 

Corp.  Job  Manston, 

David  MacLane, 

Corp.  Ozias  Metcalf, 

Joseph  Metcalf, 

Luther  Metcalf, 

Hanun  Metcalf, 

Timothy  Metcalf, 

Theodore  Mann, 

Michael  Metcalf, 

Lieut.  Henry  Morse, 

Sergt.  James  Morse, 

Joel  Morse, 

Josiah  Morse, 

Joseph  Morse, 

Samuel  Morse, 

Abner  Morse, 

John  Morse, 

Sylvanus  Morse, 

Uriah  Morse, 

Thomas  Morse, 

Andrew  Nelson, 

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Samuel  Noble, 

Sergt.  David  Partridge, 

Nathan  Partridge, 

Nathaniel  Partridge, 

Seth  Partridge, 

Seth  Partridge,  Jun'r, 

Zeba  Partridge, 

James  Perry, 

Capt.  James  Penniman, 

Sergt.  Eli  Pond, 

Barzillai  Pond, 

Corp.  Job  Plympton, 

Sergt.  Amos  Richardson, 
Asa  Richardson, 
Jesse  Richardson, 
Elisha  Richardson, 
Oliver  Richardson, 
Jason  Richardson, 
Abijah  Richardson, 
William  Ray, 
Moses  Rock  wood, 
George  Riley, 
Chaplain  David  Sinford, 
Ichabod  Seaver, 
Nathan  Smith, 
Jabez  Shumway, 
William  Stinner, 
George  Sumner, 
Lieut.  Moses  Thompson, 
Samuel  Thompson, 
Nathan  Turner, 
Simeon  Turner, 
Obed  Ware, 
Sergt.  John  Wheeler, 
John  Whiting, 
Charles  White, 
Peter  Wight, 
George  Straten, 

Total, 


Capt.  Joshua  Partridge, 
Corp.  Joel  Partridge, 
Samuel  Partridge, 
Moses  Partridge, 
Simeon  Partridge, 
Joshua  Partridge,  Jun'r, 
Benjamin  Parnel, 
Eliphalet  Pierce, 
Jonathan  Pierce, 
Moses  Pond, 
Jedidiah  Phillips, 
John  Plympton, 
Corp.  Simeon  Richardson, 
Daniel  Richardson,  Jun'r, 
Moses  Richardson, 
John  Richardson, 
Ezra  Richardson, 
Moses  Richardson,  Jun'r, 
Joshua  Richardson, 
Jonathan  Ralph, 
Asa  Robbins, 
Philo  Sanford, 
Ichabod  Senor, 
Denny  Sheffield, 
John  Smith, 
Will'm  Southworth, 
Joseph  Southworth, 
Nathan  Thayer, 
Timothy  Thompson. 
Amos  Turner, 
Jacob  Turner, 
Amos  Turner,  Jun'r, 
Daniel  Ware, 
Jonathan  Wheeler, 
John  Whitney, 
Joshua  Whitney, 
Samuel  Wight, 
Cornelius  Youngman. 


330. 


Revolutionary  Soldiers  Buried  in  the  Old  Church 
Yard  Cemetery  in  Millis. 


Dates  of 
Birth  and  Death. 

Oliver  Adams,  1738-1816. 

Capt.  Jonathan  Adams,  1709-1804. 

Elisha  Adams,  1718-1781. 

Jonathan  Adams,  1737-1818. 

Amos  Bullard,  1752-1843. 

Jeduthan  Bullen,  1751-1830. 

Daniel  Bullen,  1729-1801. 
John  Bullard. 

Henry  Bullard,  1723-1799. 

Timothy  Bullard,  1740-1827. 

Henry  Bullard,  Jr.,  1749-1824. 

Isaac  Bullard,  1743-1832. 

George  Barber,  1743-1832. 

Rev.  Nathan  Bucknam,  1703-1795. 

Stephen  Clark,  1743-1820. 

Lt.  Theo.  Clark,  1741-1827. 

David  Clark,  1718-1803. 

Elijah  Clark,  1726-1801. 

Timothy  Clark,  1734-1807. 

Jeremiah  Curtis,  1757-1804. 

Jesse  Daniels,  1760-1837. 

Dea.  Asa  Daniels,  1753-1840. 

Lemeuel  Daniels,  1757-1818. 
Capt.  Jeremiah  Daniels,  1754-1830. 

Moses  Daniels,  1736-1800. 

Henry  Daniels,  1708-1806. 

Henry  Daniels,  Jr.,  1739-1815. 

Capt.  Joseph  Daniels,  1736-1 823. 

Henry  Ellis,  1736-1822. 

Asa  Ellis,  1727-1784. 

Lt.  John  Ellis,  Jr.,  1727-1809. 

John  Ellis,  Jr.,  1755-1826. 

Ebenezer  Ellis,  1729-1819. 


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Silas  Fairbanks,  1745-1823. 

Lt.  Abraham  Harding,  1730-1819. 

Stephen  Harding,  1752-1835. 

Lt.  John  Harding,  1693-1782. 

Capt.  S.  Harding,  1693-1780. 

Capt.  T.  Harding,  1698-1780. 

Capt.  T.  Hammond,  1736-1813. 

Thomas  Harding,  Jr.,  1760-1853. 

Simon  Hill,  1738-1802. 

Enoch  Hill,  1728-1793. 

Samuel  Hill,  1736-1815. 

Capt.  S.  Jones,  1755-1825. 

Nathan  Jones,  1762- 

Capt.  Joseph  Lovell,  1741-1827. 

Nath.  Lovell,  1748-1824. 

Ozias  Metcalf,  1744-1777. 

Timothy  Metcalf,  1718-1779. 

Uriah  Morse,  1709-1789. 
Thomas  Morse. 

Ziba  Partridge,  1761-1831. 

Samuel  Partridge,  1752-1842. 

Seth  Partridge,  1736-1807. 

Joshua  Partridge,  1745-1802. 

Capt.  J.  Partridge,  1713-1795. 

Benj.  Parnell,  1746-1831. 

Jedediah  Phillips,  1762-1844. 

Capt.  James  Penniman,  1726-1804. 

Dr.  Abijah  Richardson,  1752-1822. 

Ezra  Richardson,  1745-1802. 

Moses  Richardson,  1717-1797. 

Moses  Richardson,  Jr.,  1740-1826. 

Elisha  Richardson,  1745-1810. 

Daniel  Richardson,  1721-1779. 

Oliver  Richardson,  1754-1S45. 

Asa  Richardson,  1747-1851. 

Simeon  Richardson,  1744-1825. 

Capt.  Amos  Turner,  1730-1780. 

Amos  Turner,  1760-1820. 


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John  Wheeler,  1742-1788. 

Jonathan  Wheeler,  1718-1796. 

John  Whitney,  1749- 


Revolutionary   Soldiers  Buried  in  the  Old  Cemetery 
at  West  Medway* 


Dates  of 
Birth  and  Death. 
Capt.  Moses  Adams,         1731-1815. 
Lieut.  Jonathan  Adams,  1752-1849. 
Phineas  Adams. 

Gen.  Eliakim  Adams,       1755-1807. 
Timothy  Adams,  1758-1831. 

Titus  Adams,  1758-1808. 

Obidiah  Adams,  1758-1820. 

Joseph  Barber,  1731-1812. 

Simeon  Cutler,  1738-1826. 

Asa  Clark,  1730-1810. 

James  Clark,  Jr.,  1724-1786. 

Joseph  Clark,  1760-1779. 

Elisha  Cutler,  1738-1806. 

Timothy  Ellis,  1735-1798. 

Simeon  Fisher,  1748-1818. 

Asa  Fuller,  -1836. 

Ichabod  Harding,  1721-1794. 

Capt.  John  Harding,         1756-1833. 
Ichabod  Hawes,  1719-1777. 

Seth  Hixon,  1734-1821. 

Isaac  Hixon,  1762-1849. 

Lieut.JonathanHolbrook,1746-1793. 
Lieut.  Daniel  Ide,  1726-1 813. 

Josiah  Ide,  1758-1778. 

Maj.  Luther  Metcalf,        1757-1838. 
Ralph  Mann,  1745-1825. 

Capt.  Simeon  Partridge,  1760-1832. 


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Joel  Partridge,  1750-1825. 

Barzillai  Pond,  1759-1823. 

Lieut.  John  Pond,  1751-1776. 

Moses  Pond,  1737-1832. 

Capt.  Job  Plimton,  1723-1797. 

Moses  Rockwood,  1737-1823. 

Rev.  David  Sanford,  1737-1810. 

Philo  Sanford,  1761-1835. 

Jabez  Shumway,  1747-1821. 
Lieut.  Moses  Thompson,  1728-1794. 
Lieut.  Nathan  Whiting,  1725-1790. 

Dr.  Aaron  Wight,  1760-1831. 


RELIGIOUS  SOCIETIES  ESTABLISHED  IN 
MEDWAY. 


First  Church  of  Christ,  (East  Med  way,  now  Millis)  1714. 

Second  Congregational  Church,  (West  Med  way)  1750. 

Baptist  Church,  (West  Medway)  1819. 

Universal  Friend's  Society,  1823-1830. 

Third  Congregational  Church,  (East  Medway)  1836-1865. 

Village  Evangelical  Church,  (Medway)  1838. 

St.  Joseph's  Church,  (Medway)  1850. 

Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  (West  Medway)  1857. 

St.  Clement's  P.  E.,  (Millis)  1865-1871. 

Christ  Church  P.  E.,  (Medway)  1874. 

Third  Congregational  Church,  (West  Medway)  1886-L891. 

Jewish  Synagogue,  (Medway)  1899. 

Jewish  Synagogue,  (Millis)  1910. 


MEDWAY  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 


President  Lincoln's  first  call  for  Volunteers,  dated  April 
15,  1861,  was  responded  to  by  seven  men  : — 

Amos  L.  Fuller,  George  W.  Mahr, 

William  S.  Partridge,  William  H.  Dunbar, 

Addison  T.  Hastings,  Egbert  O.  Hixon, 

Francis  L.  B.  Monroe. 

Co*  E,  Second  Mass.  Regiment. 

A  company  was  formed  in  April,  1861,  and  drilled  under 
Captain  David  Daniels  of  Militia  fame.  Early  in  May,  it  was 
found  that  by  waiving  their  choice  of  officers  from  their  own 
number,  they  could  at  once  join  a  regiment,  under  command 
of  Colonel  George  H.  Gordon,  and  it  was  unanimously  voted 
to  do  so.  This  was  the  first  regiment  raised  in  the  North  for 
three  years'  service,  and  on  May  20th  eighty  men  took  train 
from  this  town  and  went  into  camp  at  Brook  Farm,  in  West 
Roxbury.  They  were  mustered  into  service  on  the  same  day, 
as  Co.  E.  Fifty-four  of  these  eighty  men  were  citizens  of 
Medway,  and  the  remainder  from  neighboring  towns.  On 
June  26th,  the  flags,  now  in  Memorial  Hall  at  the  State  House, 
were  presented  to  the  regiment,  and  carried  through  the  hard- 
est battles,  and  never  lost  or  surrendered.  On  July  8th,  the 
regiment  left  for  Virginia,  dining  on  Boston  Common  before 
taking  the  train.  The  principal  battles  in  which  they  served, 
from  1861  to  1864,  were  Cedar  Mountain,  Antietam,  Winches- 
ter, Chancellorsville,  Gettysburg  and  Resaca.  In  1863,  they 
were  sent  to  New  York  City  to  help  quell  the  draft  riots,  and 
remained  there  two  weeks,  camping  in  City  Hall  Square.  The 
engagements  in  which  they  took  part  were  in  the  Upper  Po- 
tomac region,  Valley  of  Virginia,  Kentucky  and  Tennessee. 
The  lamented  Colonel  Shaw  and  Wilder  Dwight  were  officers 
of   this   regiment.     The  late  William  R.  Parsons  was  chosen 


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first  sergeant  of  Co.  E.  at  Camp  Andrew,  before  leaving  Bos- 
ton. The  only  surviving  members  of  Co.  E.,  now  living  in 
this  town,  are  Michael  Slavin  and  Charles  M.  Disper. 

Up  to  July,  1862,  thirty-nine  volunteers,  enlisted  in  dif- 
ferent regiments  from  this  town.  Thirty-eight  answered  the 
President's  call  for  three-year  men  July,  1862,  and  forty- eight 
responded  to  the  call  of  August,  for  nine  months'  service ; 
twelve  men  were  secured  in  an  additional  call  for  three-year 
men  at  the  same  time. 

From  October,  1863,  to  March,  1864,  sixty-seven  men 
volunteered  for  three  years.  In  July,  1864,  forty- four  men  enlist- 
ed, for  one  hundred  days'  service,  and  thirty-two  for  a  longer 
period  of  service.  Seven  Med  way  men  joined  the  naval  forces 
of  the  Government  in  1864.  In  December,  1864,  forty-six  men 
were  credited  to  this  town  on  the  last  call  for  volunteers, 
made  by  the  President. 

The  town  paid  $35,677.96  for  its  soldiers,  in  bounties  and 
aid  to  families,  and  during  the  four  years'  prosecution  of  the 
war,  fully  kept  up  to  the  high  standard  set  by  our  Common- 
wealth. 


Union  Soldiers  from  Medway* 
J86M865, 


Lord  M.  Ackert,  Daniel  Ackley, 

Calvin  Adams,  Charles  A.  Adams, 

Charles  C.  Adams,  Eliakim  A.  J.  Adams, 

Erastus  Adams,  George  W.  Adams, 

Milton  S.  Adams,  Samuel  B.  Adams, 

Silas  P.  Adams,  Stephen  P.  Adams, 

William  Adams,  Charles  Allen, 

George  H.  Allen,  Sydney  W.  Allen, 

Edward  L.  Andrews,  Frank  B.  Andrews, 

George  H.  Andrews,  James  Andrews, 

William  O.  Andrews,  George  W.  Armitage, 

Albert  A.  Ballou,  George  W.  Ballou, 


Ill 


George  W.  Bancroft, 
Edward  C.  Barrows, 
George  H.  Barton, 
David  H.  Benner, 
Asaph  M.  Bisbee, 
Adin  P.  Blake, 
William  F.  Britton, 
George  Brown, 
George  F.  Brown,  2d, 
James  Brown, 
Lewis  Buffum, 
Elbridge  H.  Bullard, 
Joel  P.  Bullard, 
Edward  M.  Bullen, 
Jacob  W.  Butler, 
Alfred  A.  Cary, 
Samuel  B.  Cary, 
Jeremiah  Cassidy, 
Calvin  Claflin, 
Albert  L.  Clark, 
Charles  Clark, 
David  A.  Clark, 
Frederick  F.  Clark, 
James  W.  Clark, 
Warren  A.  Clark, 
Alfred  Clifford, 
John  Coad, 
Samuel  P.  Coffan, 
John  Conly, 
David  F.  Coville, 
Alexander  M.  Cushing, 
Henry  R.  Dain, 
Edward  Daniels, 
Joseph  L.  Daniels, 
William  D.  Daniels, 
David  S.  Darling, 
Amos  F.  Davis, 
Sheppard  Davis, 


Newell  Barber, 
George  W.  Bartlett, 
Alfred  R.  Bell, 
Marshall  A.  Bent, 
Aaron  H.  Blake, 
Charles  W.  Brackett, 
Aaron  Brown, 
George  F.  Brown, 
Henry  W.  Brown, 
Robert  W.  Brown, 
Albert  E.  Bullard, 
George  W.  Bullard, 
Sylvanus  Bullard, 
Charles  E.  Burr, 
John  Carr, 
Charles  E.  Cary, 
John  W.  Cass, 
William  H.  Chace, 
Albert  H.  Clark, 
Asa  Clark, 
Charles  S.  Clark, 
Edmund  N.  Clark, 
George  E.  Clark, 
Sewell  J.  Clark, 
William  B.  Clark, 
Joseph  C.  Clifford, 
John  W.  Codding, 
Charles  H.  Cole, 
Timothy  Coughlin, 
Charles  E.  Cummings, 
Alonzo  M.  Dain, 
Charles  H.  Daniels, 
Henry  J  Daniels, 
William  A.  Daniels, 
Timothy  Daley, 
Jesse  Darling, 
Edwin  S.  Davis, 
Benjamin  F.  Dexter, 


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Charles  M.  Disper, 
Patrick  J.  Donovan, 
Thomas  Dudy, 
Shubael  E.  Dunbar, 
Alonzo  Dunton, 
Charles  H.  Everett, 
Albert  F.  Fales, 
John  M.  Fales, 
John  Fendt, 
Frank  L.  Fisher, 
George  S.  Fisher, 
Theodore  VV.  Fisher, 
Julius  A.  Fitts, 
Michael  Fitzgerald, 
James  B.  Flaherty, 
Emmons  Force, 
William  W.  Forman, 
Peter  Foster, 
George  F.  French, 
Charles  F.  Fuller, 
George  E.  Fuller, 
James  A.  Gale, 
John  Glancy, 
Joseph  H.  Gould, 
Charles  A.  Grant, 
Frank  S.  Grant, 
Harrison  G.  Grant, 
John  P.  Green, 
George  H.  Greenwood, 
John  T.  Greenwood, 
Thomas  Haekett, 
Daniel  Hammond, 
John  Harney, 
Thomas  J.  Harrington, 
Edward  P.  Hart, 
Addison  T.  Hastings, 
William  C.  Hawes, 
James  H.  Heaton, 


Francis  T.  Dodge, 
John  F.  Driscoll, 
Amos  A.  Dugan, 
William  H.  Dunbar, 
John  H.  Durgin, 
George  B.  Everett, 
James  E.  Fales, 
John  Farren, 
Charles  H.  Fisher, 
George  H.  Fisher, 
Lewis  L   Fisher, 
Willard  P.  Fisher, 
James  Fitzgerald, 
Andrew  Fitzsimmons, 
Thomas  Flaherty, 
Silas  Force, 
George  J.  Foster, 
William  B.  Foster, 
Amos  L.  Fuller, 
George  A.  Fuller, 
George  F.  Fuller, 
Patrick  Gallagher, 
John  Gormly, 
Charles  Grant, 
Edwin  A.  Grant, 
George  O.  Grant, 
James  M.  Grant, 
George  E.  Greenwood, 
Isaac  C.  Greenwood, 
Joseph  A.  Greenwood, 
Robert  Hall, 
George  B.  Hardy, 
Peter  Harrington, 
William   Harrold, 
Michael  Hart,  Jr., 
William  Hawes, 
Albert  M.  Hayward, 
John  Henry, 


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James  T.  Higgins, 
Edmund  W.  Hill, 
Moses  Hill, 
Alonzo  Hixon, 
George  H.  Hixon, 
Edwin  H.  Holbrook, 
Dennis  Hosmer, 
John  G.  Hosmer, 
Alvin  W.  Houghton, 
George  H.  Ide, 
Edmund  A.  Jones, 
Francis  Kenny, 
Martin  M.  Keith, 
John  H.  Kendall, 
Patrick  Killaly, 
Frank  W.  Kimball, 
George  H.  Kingsbury, 
Annah  Ladd, 
George  F.  Leavitt, 
Horatio  T.  Leonard, 
William  Lilley, 
Charles  McGorty, 
Albert  W.  Mann, 
George  F.  Marden, 
George  E.  Mason, 
Thomas  H.  Matthews, 
Peter  Mawn, 
James  B.  May, 
John  McCabe, 
James  McCowan, 
Richard  B.  McElroy, 
James  McLaughlin, 
Thomas  McNamara, 
John  Miller, 
James  Mitchell, 
John  Monks, 
Francis  L.  B.  Monroe, 
Andrew  Morse, 


John  Higgins, 
Lewis  S.  Hill, 
John  Hirl, 
Egbert  O.  Hixon, 
Edward  Hogan, 
James  T.  Holmes, 
Edwin  H.  Hosmer, 
Albert  C.  Houghton, 
Joseph  H.  Howard, 
George  A.  Jacobs, 
John  B.  Jones, 
Cornelius  Keating, 
William  F.  Kemp, 
Joseph  Kirsher, 
Charles  C.  Kimball, 
Charles  G.  Kingsbury, 
William  Kirby, 
James  E.  Lawrence, 
Gilbert  H.  Leland, 
John  Leonard, 
John  Looby, 
George  W.  Mahr, 
Frank  V.  Mann, 
William  M.  Martin, 
Simon  L.  Mason, 
William  H.  Matthews, 
Edward  A.  May, 
Daniel  McAlevy, 
John  McCann, 
Gilbert  McCallom, 
Thomas  McKenna, 
Christopher  McNamara, 
William  F.  Merritt, 
Lewis  L.  Miller, 
James  S.  Mitchell, 
Alexander  L.  B.  Monroe, 
Amos  B.  Morse, 
Eleazer  Morse, 


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Frederic  D.  Morse, 
Robert  T.  Morse, 
Charles  Murray, 
George  L  Meyer, 
John  Nolan, 
William  A.  Nolan, 
Hugh  O'Brien, 
John  O'Hara, 
Thomas  O'Rourke, 
William  R    Parsons, 
George  V.  Partridge, 
William  S.  Partridge, 
George  E.  Pettes, 
John  A.  Pierce, 
Jonathan  Pitcher, 
Edwin  D.  Pond, 
George  E.  Pond, 
Oscar  A.  Pond, 
Alpheus  Proctor, 
Stephen  F.  Purdy, 
George  H.  Read, 
Thomas  Reise, 
Benjamin  Remmick, 
George  H.  Rich, 
James  G.  Richards, 
Emory  Richardson, 
Joseph  H.  Richardson, 
Henry  M.  Rockwood, 
Chandler  W.  Sanders, 
Melvin  Sawyer, 
John  Scott, 
George  T.  Simpson, 
Michael  Slavin, 
William  Smith, 
Herman  S.  Sparrow, 
James  Spelraan, 
George  A.  S  ted  man, 
George  H.  Stratton, 


Milton  H.  Morse, 
Daniel  Mundon, 
James  F.  Murphy, 
William  D.  Newland, 
John  Nolan, 
George  E.  Nourse, 
Michael  O'Donnell, 
Alfred  Onion, 
Charles  Osborne, 
David  A   Partridge, 
Warren  J.  Partridge, 
William  E.  Pettingill, 
William  H.  Pettis, 
Ezra  Pierson, 
Edwin  C.  Pond, 
Elmer  H.  Pond, 
George  O.  Pond, 
Asa  D.  Prescott, 
F'ranklin  Proctor, 
Patrick  Raferty, 
Patrick  Regan, 
Timothy  Reardon, 
George  S.  Rice, 
Henry  T.  Rich, 
Addison  W.  Richardson, 
Henry  S.  Richardson, 
Brougham  Roberts, 
Thomas  Rollins, 
George  S.  Sanford, 
Michael  Schc  field, 
Richard  Searles, 
Frank  X.  Sinzinger, 
Edmund  J.  Smith, 
Henry  L.  Snell, 
Philip  O.  Sparrow, 
Matthew  M.  Sperry, 
Charles  H.  Stewart, 
John  S.  Stratton, 


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Frederick  Swarman, 
Avery  Sylvester, 
William  H.  Thomas, 
Henry  Tibbets, 
Charles  H.  Torrey, 
John  S.  Treen, 
Lucius  M.  Turner, 
Edward  G  Tutein, 
Albert  L.  Vallet, 
Jeremiah  Vase, 
Charles  Wardin, 
George  C.  Webber, 
Alfred  C.  Wheat, 
Edward  H.  Wheeler, 
James  Whitcomb, 
John  Whitman, 
Charles  E.  Whitney, 
Albert  H.  Wiley, 
Allen  T.  Williams, 
George  H.  Williams, 
John  Winter, 
Henry  A.  Wood, 
Daniel  S.  Woodman, 
James  G.  Young, 
Robert  O.  Young. 

Total, 


John  H.  Swarman, 
John  Tevlin, 
John  Thompson, 
Benjamin  C.  Tinkham, 
James  J.  Treanor, 
Lewis  A.  Treen, 
William  H.  Turner, 
Albert  Vallet, 
John  H.  Vallet, 
John  Walch, 
John  Watts, 
James  Welch, 
Henry  Wheat, 
Lewis  Wheeler, 
Samuel  O.  White, 
Charles  Whitney,     " 
George  W.  Whitney, 
John  Willey, 
Charles  E.  Williams, 
Horace  J.  Wilmarth, 
Emery  Wood, 
Levi  Preston  Wood, 
William  P.  Wyman, 
Orson  D.  Young, 


377  men. 


SPANISH-AMERICAN  WAR, 


The    following    Medway    men    served   in   the    Spanish- 


American  war  : 

Harry  C.  Adams, 
John  E.  Cullen, 
Lloyd  T.  Hunter, 
Walter  C.  Gilmore, 
John  E.  O'Hara, 
Walter  C.  Shorts. 


Frederick  L.  Clark, 
George  Holmes, 
Clyde  C.  Hunt, 
Eugene  C.  L.  Morse, 
William  Spear, 


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